Hmm. I suppose I’ll forgive him J
Funny thing was that during our preflight we had a conversation
about the importance of keeping your hand on the throttle during takeoff.
Apparently I have a habit of pulling back with both hands. I hadn’t noticed this,
so genuinely appreciate the feedback but when Bob tried to pull back the power
I wouldn’t move my hand. We had a brief “battle of the throttle” before he won!
The actual simulated failure was fine. I did exactly what I was
meant to and we landed quite happily on runway remaining (and then go to backtrack, yay!!) A lot went through my
mind in a very short space of time. We were doing shortfield takeoffs, when I
felt Bob going for the throttle I was thinking “what am I doing wrong that he
needs to correct?” Then when he announced the failure I knew very quickly that
I just needed to land the thing, so I did. Followed by shooting Bob a look of
pure disgust that said “I can’t believe you just did that to me” Then I decided
that the entire thing was actually quite funny, but it got my heart racing I can
tell you.
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