Saw a great story from an acquaintance who’s learning twins right now.
Names altered / removed to protect the innocent...
Even when you teach it and think they’ve truly internalized it... you sometimes get lucky that the world throws a wrench at the student’s head...
Identify, Verify, Feather...
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So there I was in a left steep turn and everything seems pretty normal until we damned near rolled over [on our back] to the left.
Assumption: sim left engine failure via my instructor.
I applied opposite rudder while closing both throttles and righted the ship...still convinced that my left engine was “dead.”
Engine failure in flight checklist memory items: boom, boom, boom.
When I said, “...I’d then feather my left prop, left mixture idle cut off...”
Instructor: “Bob, hang on. What did you forget?”
Me: [completely confused
???]
Instructor: “Did you verify that the left engine was dead?”
Me: still completely confused over what had actually happened and what I had done wrong
????
Instructor: “your left engine isn’t dead
.”
Me: “But during the steep turn it nearly rolled over on its back(!) You didn’t do anything?!”
Instructor: trying not to laugh “You uh...went through your starting heading by 90 degrees, flew through your own wake turbulence and that’s what rolled you over. I didn’t touch a thing.”
Me:
Also me: WOW
Also me: feeling
ish