On Mar 8, 8:49 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote :



You took the words right out of my mouth :-) After 50 years in the
aviation instruction and safety business, there's nothing like arguing
these issues with a paper plane idiot and an instructor who advocates
starving an engine on take off to "teach his students properly"
To coin a phrase from a friend,
"God I LOVE Usenet!!!" :-))

Don't get me wrong, I think students need to get to see cetain things, but
taknig chances that are just completely unnnecesary is just.. stupid..


The moment I saw the 'pulling mixture on takeoff to simulate engine
failure' I knew the claimant is another Anthony.
How do we shut down?
By leaning the engine right out with the mixture control.
To do so upon takeoff during such a crucial part of flight is going to
eventually kill a student and the instructor.

His other claim about 'pulling' the fuel reinforces the fact that he
knows nothing about flying.

The term was and is 'selecting' as in selecting left tank, right tank
and selecting off which will stop the engine through fuel starvation
and again kill a student and instructor..

The tried and true method of demonstrating engine failure on take off
is by reducing power via throttle just the same as engine failure
training at altitude.