Twin Engine Procedures for RC Pilots

[@mikecarbone828]

Salutations Tim! Excellent presentation, this is great information for RC and full scale pilots to learn, and familiarise themselves with. This helps to insure that RC pilots have a little more knowledge necessary to operate their planes safely. Thank you for sharing this with us all and posting this video. Please have an excellent and awesome day! ☀️✨✈️

[@TimMcKay56]

Mike: So glad this was helpful and thanks for checking in! Tim

[@kevinr8336]

Timely presentation for me, thanks... I have a Guillows P-38 recently completed and a Beech Baron just about done. I'll have a very experienced RC pilot maiden these, but watching your video will help me as I take the sticks understanding how to deal with an engine-out situation.

[@TimMcKay56]

Kevin: Best of luck with your test flights!! Tim

[@mikenadler7118]

My friend was flying a Pico Duelist with two .40 glow engines. One engine failed at high cruise and the plane flipped upside down so fast that we were not sure it had flipped. Needless to say, it crashed. I've been absent from R/C flying for nine years and I'm just about to get back into it. Love your videos. Thank you.

[@TimMcKay56]

Mike: The Duelist was a rocket. Welcome back to the hobby! Tim

[@crystalclearwindowcleaning3458]

Thanks for sharing this info. A few years ago my friend and I were taking a demonstration flight on a DC-3. Just after becoming airborne We lost oil pressure in one of the engines. The pilots feather the engine you made a tight turn to a downwind leg in the base leg and landed. It was a very short flight. But I knew the DC-3 could fly on one engine.

[@TimMcKay56]

Very cool! Tim

[@KenSwanson-p4i]

Tim, .. great discussion .. and efficient speaking about it. I heard it put once, the 2nd engine on smaller aircraft, enabling a glorified, extended glide, .. if one engine was all that was left.

[@TimMcKay56]

Thanks! You have it right ref the extended glide. And, if you are not properly trained, and LOT can go wrong when you lose an engine, especially on takeoff. Tim

[@KenSwanson-p4i]

@@TimMcKay56 Yes, .. and I don't think that most of us would anticipate the torque/controlling complications, in the moment, without some forewarnings, about this. I do recall, being along, in the back seat of a Beech Duchess, with 2 flight instructors practicing, for themselves .. and not really noticing anything too extraordinary, when they intentionally stopped one of the engines, and flew for some time, like this Hmm, .. so I just looked online, .. and it appears as though Duchess's do have counter-rotating, constant speed props .. so, .. this plane, having the best setup, for single engine only situations.

[@TimMcKay56]

Yeah, I am not a huge fan of intentionally shutting down an engine in flight. You have to do it at least once in training, to actually see that the prop feathers and the engine shuts down. Best to be right over your airport. And then the engine has to start, and it is rough on the system to come out of feather and resume normal flight. Tim

[@SouthTexas-n8o]

Great RC, preflight emergency brief!

[@TimMcKay56]

ST: Thanks for checking in, fully agree ref emergency procedures. Best to sort these issues out at groundspeed zero. 😊✈️ Tim

[@burbbyb1118]

Good video.

[@TimMcKay56]

Thanks! Tim

[@TK-bg6gq]

As always, another great video Tim. I enjoyed the video on the twin engine airplane you made. I hope you will do another twin engine video on how to set the motor elevations properly. As some planes have the prop set higher above the wing and some have the prop center below the wing. How do you determine which is best?? Thanks. Thomas

[@TimMcKay56]

Thomas: Thanks for checking in! There are a lot of design inputs for setting motor elevation. For example, on some full scale planes prop ground clearance is a factor. For the average RC model airplane, putting the prop thrust centerline in the middle of the wing is about right to get relative airflow over the most parts of the wing, and minimal pitch inputs with power changes. Tim

[@robertgordon5562]

Who did you fly the CRJ-700 for?

[@TimMcKay56]

Robert: Mesa Airlines, flying as United Express at IAD. Fun times! Tim

[@robertgordon5562]

@@TimMcKay56 I enjoyed flying the 700 and 900 out of ATL.

[@TimMcKay56]

@@robertgordon5562 😊👍🏻 Tim

[@Tammy-un3ql]

😊👍🏻 Tim

[@TimMcKay56]

Thanks! Tim

[@terryrigden4860]

Thank you. Advice noted, hope I don't need it

[@TimMcKay56]

😊👍🏻 Tim