Here's an acronym, you tell me a way to remember

[FlySmiley]

One of the most dangerous situations in GA flying is an engine failure in a light twin right? How often do you see people teaching acronyms for the procedure? Does this sound familiar to anyone? MPTGFIVF?

When it counts for your life, straight memorization is the only way to go. Some procedures need to be rehearsed so many times that they come nauturally without the slightest bit of thought. For everything else there are checklists! Just take care of business!

So, if your flight school finds it so important that you memorize this procedure verbatim, then I suggest that you sit in the airplane without it running and practice until you dream the procedure in your sleep.

[ROFCIBC]

Originally Posted by MidlifeFlyer

We read plenty of NTSB reports about what happens when the pilot waits just a few seconds too long to lower the nose to keep the speed up when an engine failure takes place during departure.

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I would contend that falls into the first rule of flying,

FLY THE AIRPLANE!

Now this may sound goofy, but if the engine quits you still have to "fly the airplane". Yes, you have no power, yes you need to get some, or eventually you will come down to mother earth. But in all my aviation "flying the airplane" is not an emergency procedure, nor even an abnormal procedure. It has no memory items, nor even a checklist. It is basic pilot skill, pure and simple. That pilot skill used all the time, every time a pilot fly’s an airplane.