Engine Emergency in Microsoft Flight Simulator

Video Transcript

"DIXON GILLETTE: Welcome back to Expert Village, my name is Dixon Gillette and let's continue our tutorial on Microsoft Flight Simulator X. All right, so we're going to be flying a Baron 58 to simulate an engine-out procedure. Now typically, engine-out procedures won't be used unless you do something like shut off the fuel to that tank; or in this case, we just simply turn the engine off to simulate this. The first thing you need to do when you have an engine out in a twin-engine aircraft is get control of your aircraft. Now, because your aircraft has two engines, whichever engine is going is going to want to pull your aircraft around. So what you going to want to do is you're going to want to compensate for that by using aileron-rudder and, a lot of times, a little bit of elevator pressure. Now, of course, the next thing you're going to want to do is you going to want to increase all the power you have available with your good engine. A lot of times, you're going to take that engine and throttle forward as much as possible to compensate for the lost of power suffered from the lost of the other engine. And finally, the next thing we're going to want to do is reduce drag as much as possible. If you are at altitude, typically your landing gear will already be up; however, you can do one more thing to decrease drag and that's by feathering your prop. Here, we could see our propeller control. If we drag it all the way down, we see a little indicator where it says prop feather. You're going to want to drag your propeller that is not on all the way down to this, and essentially this is going to make your propeller vain into the wind thus reducing drag and giving you that little extra bit of performance you need during your engine-lost procedure."