This document provides guidance on how to handle an engine failure during takeoff in an aircraft. It advises pilots to carefully check engine instruments during throttle up and listen for any abnormal sounds. If all checks are normal, takeoff can continue safely. However, if there is an engine failure, the pilot should take quick action to get the nose down and land straight ahead, even if it means overrunning the end of the runway, in order to avoid a potentially dangerous turn-back maneuver. The document then discusses how to properly execute an impossible turn in the event it cannot be avoided, with a focus on maintaining airspeed, stall avoidance, and coordinated turns.

1. Engine Failure on Take Off and the
Impossible Turn
Making the Impossible Turn,
Possible!!
By: Mike Zidziunas

2. Avoiding an Engine Out on Take-Off!
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Use the Aircraft Manufactured Checklist!
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On Throttle Up double check ALL Engine
instruments in the Green!
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Does it sound like it normally does?
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Is the Aircraft accelerating as it usually does?
If All of these Points are Correct
then we can continue the take-off!

3. “ABORTING” The Take-Off
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If the Aircraft has NOT left the ground, it's a simple matter of
maintaining directional control.
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If the Aircraft has left the ground AND is LESS than 100 feet,
“Quick” action is required of the Pilot, (Get The Nose
Down!)
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You are More Than Likely going to Damage The Aircraft! BUT
you will SURVIVE!!!!
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If the Aircraft has NOT reached the minimum safe altitude for
any kind of turn, ( You MUST get the nose down, and Land
Straight A Head even if it means running off the end of the
runway.)

4. The Impossible Turn!
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The Stall/ Spin fear.
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Coordinated turns.
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Energy (Airspeed) management!
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Climbing Power OFF Stall.

5. The Possible Turn!
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How many Feet does it take for you to turn your Aircraft 180
Degrees from a Vy Climb?
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What Is best Glide (L/D)? & What Does it LOOK Like?
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What is the Optimum Bank Angle?
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Practice turns at 20, 30, and 40 Degree Bank Angles AT Best
Glide! (Record Your Results)
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The Most important thing is that we maintain Best Glide!!!
Which Means that the more we increase the bank the
more the nose should drop.
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What speed does your Aircraft fly at when set for Take-Off Trim?

6. Reasons For Turning Back To The
Airport?
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The roughest Spot on the Airport, is Smoother than the smoothest
Spot in the housing development off the end of the runway!
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EMS KNOWS where the Airport is!
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FAR 91.119 (a) Minimum Safe Altitude at which you may land without
undue Hazards to persons or property, on the surface.
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This doesn't mean that we HAVE to make the runway.

7. Don't Save The Airplane!
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Rolling level will HELP arrest the descent.
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Do NOT extend Flaps or Landing Gear, until the
Runway is made.
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Better to belly it in to the grass, than to stall in.