Tanker 336 wrote:
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I’ll recall a story my father told me back in the 1980’s. Back then my father was the only person in Alberta who held a Pilot & AME Licence for the B-25 Mitchell. He was authorized by DOT (then called Department of Transportation) to endorse other B-25 drivers. This particular story involves an inspector who needed to be endorsed so that he could certify perspective B-25 pilots. However, my father first had to endorse this inspector and then once the inspector was certified he turned around and had to do a re-endorsement on my father to ensure he knew the ins and outs on this type of aircraft. Therefore, my father took this inspector out on a test flight and just after they took off (10 feet off the runway) the inspector instead of simulating a engine loss actually pulled the power back on the Starboard engine and said you just lost an engine what do you do. My father immediately applied power back to the right engine and leveled off and began chastising the inspector mentioning that this was a good way to get yourself killed. Take this story for what’s its worth but I believe my father had no further issues with this inspector.
I believe there is a story exactly like this from the testing of (I think) the DC-1. The inspector cut out an engine immediately after takeoff from the high-altitude airport in Flagstaff, AZ. The pilot finished the flight to the planned destination on the single engine, thereby proving the aircraft's engine-ot performance. Perhaps this was inspiration for the inspector mentioned by Tanker 366.
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