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Originally posted by captain2k_ca
Interested to know how heavy the bird was.......I think it should have been able to continue on even with only one engine to a suitable landing area, these planes can take a real heavy payload and still fly with one engine.......
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Don't know much on the flight charactoristics of the Goony with an engine out and heavy load at departure. It might be like our old '58 Piper Apache that we have at the FBO. We use it for "Shark Patrol" which takes us out 60 miles over the ocean looking for commercial fisherman that are trawling on top of the HAL5 phone cables that come off our coast and head to Hawaii and beyond. AT&T foots the bill for that trip every day. I'll never forget my first trip up in the Apache, my instructor made sure I understood that the second engine was only there in case the other went out. It would fly us safely to the scene of the crash!
