[dakovich]

just thought i'd tell a cool story i mentioned in the general section. i met an old WWII vet who flew P38's in the war. and on the topic of Vmc, he mentioned some things about the old twin fighter that were pretty interesting. he said they used to do what was pretty much a 360 to land manuever in the P38. i gathered it was much like the Spiral to land manuever, but less aggressive. either way, he said that you'd slowly bring out power as you descended, and as you came to land you'd have very little power in. problem was that for some reason the carberators would over-charge during this phase. so he said that if you needed to do a go around that you'd have to really gentely put power in, otherwise one engine would get a huge shot of fuel and pretty much flood it out. he mentioned a few boys were lost because they would peg the throttles on a go-around, one engine would flood and fail, and over on their back they would go. now thats a serious loss of control in an engine out situation. i don't know how that relates to GA multi flying, but it was a cool story anyway.