Richard de Crespigny
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Yeah, yeah.
If you lose an engine, you can stop.
And if you have two engines, you keep going.
Once you, if you get beyond about halfway down the runway, this is very general.
Yeah.
If you lose an engine, you keep going.
And the performance is designed for you to get safely off the ground and come back and land.
With one engine gone.
Yeah.
Right.
So everything, all aviation's predicated on losing one engine.
If you're in a two engine aircraft and you lose one, now you're down to one engine.
Now the engines are actually very reliable.
They fail about one in every 350,000 engine hours.
So about one in every eight pilots of a twin aircraft will see an engine failure in the whole.
Twin.
One in four pilots of a quad airplane.
Because if you have four engines, you've got twice the probability of having an engine failure.
As a twin pilot, because you've got four engines.
The thing is that losing one engine in a quad is nothing.