Engine failure after takeoff - for Earl

[Wolfala]

http://youtu.be/gMNXIPE1EEQ

Earl,

I thought of you when this happened yesterday. I've had torque rollbacks in real life much higher off the ground, but this was an interesting scenario that I thought would be a good ringer for folks especially in light of the king air crash with an engine failure or torque rollback on take off that went into the FlightSafety simulator building.

Here's the scenario: In all likelihood this was a birdstrike. this was not at all planned but this is how it happened. A-10c, Full combat load and 50% fuel, Black hole departure on a moonless night. Engine fire occurs right at rotation ordinance is jettisoned at about 15 feet into the approach lights. There is no balanced field length with this type Of load out. There is a slight slope at the end of the runway that gives may be about 150 feet to work with - it's hard to tell without looking at the radar altimeter.

As with most things like this you have to do everything just right within the first two seconds or you're dead: dead foot, dead engine, verify, fire bottle, cross feed, pitch for blue line, suck up all the drag items, and stay on those instruments. At a safer altitude work the problem, APU on, get everything configured and half standard rate everything.

[Gman]

Great video and explanation.  Gotta love DCS for this sort of stuff, dealing with such an emergency is almost if not more fun than dropping bombs on things and such.  I was thinking about you and A10C the other day, I've had it for so long and just started getting into it, as I pretty much played FC3 and other stuff.

Earl has told some great stories, it's too bad there isn't a video to go along with them each time, it was cool reading your report then seeing it happen, even if it is just a sim.

How many of you were flying multiplyer in that vid Wolf?

[XxDaSTaRxx]

Wolf, were you coming out of Batumi?

[Wolfala]

Wolf, were you coming out of Batumi?
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It was Batumi.

[earl1937]

http://youtu.be/gMNXIPE1EEQ

Earl,

I thought of you when this happened yesterday. I've had torque rollbacks in real life much higher off the ground, but this was an interesting scenario that I thought would be a good ringer for folks especially in light of the king air crash with an engine failure or torque rollback on take off that went into the FlightSafety simulator building.

Here's the scenario: In all likelihood this was a birdstrike. this was not at all planned but this is how it happened. A-10c, Full combat load and 50% fuel, Black hole departure on a moonless night. Engine fire occurs right at rotation ordinance is jettisoned at about 15 feet into the approach lights. There is no balanced field length with this type Of load out. There is a slight slope at the end of the runway that gives may be about 150 feet to work with - it's hard to tell without looking at the radar altimeter.

As with most things like this you have to do everything just right within the first two seconds or you're dead: dead foot, dead engine, verify, fire bottle, cross feed, pitch for blue line, suck up all the drag items, and stay on those instruments. At a safer altitude work the problem, APU on, get everything configured and half standard rate everything.

Outstanding! wish I could include some video's of some of the stories I have posted in here, but don't know how I could.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

I myself have had some DCS engine failures.

My best one was Engine 1 shutting down in the middle of an AAR.