Airspeed with engine failure AFTER takeoff
Flaps up: 65 knots
Flaps down: 60 knots
Engine failure during takeoff roll
1. Throttles to IDLE
2. FULL brakes
- Checklist
- RETRACT flaps
- Mixture to IDLE/CUTOFF
- Ignition to OFF
- Master switch to OFF
The ABCs of Engine Failure During Flight
Attitude for VG focus on Attitude not airspeed
Best Field, if it stays the same or lower in your windshield, you can get to it.
The enemy of good is “better.”
Don’t worry about the plane, just the passengers.
Cockpit Checks
Checklists.
Fuel starvation.
Engine fire during start
(Overprimed Engine)
Continue cranking!
If engine starts:
Power 1700 RPM for a few minutes then shut down.
If it doesn’t start:
- Throttle full OPEN
- Mixture to IDLE/CUTOFF
- Continue cranking
- Fuel pump and fuel shutoff valve to OFF.
- Pull out checklist.
In Flight Engine Fire
- Kill everything.
- Mixture to IDLE/CUTOFF. (turns off engine).
- Fuel shutoff valve to OFF (pulled out).
- Fuel pump switch to OFF.
- Master switch to OFF.
- Pitch nose down to get 100 knots.
- Open windows.
- Checklist.
Electrical File in Flight
- Master Switch to OFF.
- Standby Battery to OFF.
- Avionics Switch to OFF.
- Cabin HEAT/AIR to OFF.
- Fire extinguisher.
- Checklist.
icing
- Pitot heat on
- Turn back or change altitude
- Pull cabin heat full out and open defroster outlet
- Increase throttle to increase engine speed in order to decrease the ice buildup on the prop
- Carb heat as neccesary
- Checklist
Spin Recovery
PARE INOP
Power to IDLE
Ailerons NEUTRAL
Rudder full OPPOSITE.
Elevators PUSHED.
Engine Failure During Flight
- Attitude and Airspeed VG
- Fuel shutoff valve pushed all the way in.
- Fuel selector to BOTH.
- Fuel pump to ON.
- Mixture to RICH.
- Magnetos to START then BOTH.
Engine Failure Immediately AFTER takeoff
ABCs.
- Pick a field within a 60 degree window.
- Don’t hit anything with the cabin.
- Don’t turn around under 1000 feet.
1. FLAPS full down.
2. Airspeed of 60 knots with Flaps DOWN.
3. Airspeed of 65 knots with Flaps UP.
4. Turn everything off, including MIXTURE.
5. Unlatch door.
The DEFs of Engine Failure
Dialog. ATC or 121.5. Squawk 7700. Inform of location.
Everybody Ready. Communicate with passengers.
Seatbelts. Door unlatched. Run away from aircraft.
Final Checks.
Emergency Decent
- Establish speed up to VNO.
- Prepare to bleed off speed before landing.
- If smoke in the cabin, a FORWARD SLIP might make smoke leave cabin.
