Barnhart wrote:

After picking up about 500 hrs in a DC3, this one really hit home.  Never even heard of an engine falling off. We practiced take off engine failures, but never on fire and falling off.  With a gross load on a summer day........ Good thing it didn't happen to them on take off. The plane we had a one shot pull to put out an engine on fire after you aimed it.  Where do you aim at an engulfed engine?  It seems like it burned thru the oil tank also.  Something to think about is that the tire is right there also, will it be there if you need it?  Fuel management on most were to burn off everything but the wing tanks first.  If I remember right the fuel tanks for the wings were right behind the  main spar that the motor mount was mounted to.  We did one dead stick landing (both feathered, and idled) and it wasn't too bad.  We cheated tho and had the right engine still hanging on....

Barny

 
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