 Re: Engine failure...and restart
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Originally Posted by XcalibeR  You are piloting a recip twin along a relatively short 70 nm cross country. About 20 miles along the route, one of your engines fail. After doing your first quick emergency procedure (maintain directional control, full power, maintain Vyse, declare an emergency and let ATC know you'll be drifting down) and before feathering the engine, you decide to try to restart it, and sure enough, the engine comes back to life. Before the failure, you had no indications that anything was wrong. | In a recip twin without feathering the prop you don't need to restart it. Its already windmilling so switch tanks and throw a boost pump on it gets fuel it lives. You are in cruise so why go to Vyse? No reason for full power on the other engine in cruise and you shouldn't be drifting down. Why do a quick emergency procedure you are in cruise? Slow down and think. Make sure you have an emergecy before you declare one.
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