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A few additional downloads are presented below in the Dutch language only.
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Press Release
A one-page Press Release for the products presented below is available for download: Download the press release. |
Reports & Papers |
| Airplane
Control after Engine Failure
This report explains all there is to know about flight with an inoperative engine and about minimum control speed VMCA and takeoff safety speed V2. Many errors found in aviation regulations, airplane flight manuals, student pilot course books, etc. are presented and explained. Included are also ready-to-copy suggestions for improvement, including recommendations to improve the primary flight display. Read the introduction to this report | Download this report | Top Airplane Control after Engine Failure - Abbreviated An abbreviated version of the report with newly written text. This version is intended to accompany the accident analyses presented for download below. Download this report |
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Staying Alive with a Dead Engine
A paper presented to the European Aviation Safety Seminar of the Flight Safety Foundation in Athens, Greece in March 2006. The paper addresses the 4 errors that can be found in the definition of VMCA in the Flight Manual of almost all airplanes and explains that there is an important condition for both the minimum control speed VMCA and the takeoff safety speed V2 to be valid. Read the introduction to this paper | Download this paper | Top This paper is also available from the Flight Safety Foundation on the CD-ROM that contains all EASS 2006 papers. |
| The
Effect of Bank Angle
and Weight on VMCA
A paper that describes, calculates and shows in figures the effect of Bank Angle and Weight on VMCA. The method was used to calculate the figures that are presented in the report Airplane Control after Engine Failure. Read the introduction to this paper | Download this paper | Top |
| Imperfections
and Deficiencies in FAA and EASA Regulations
A report that resulted from the research for the reports and papers presented above. It presents and explains many errors found in aviation regulations that might lead to Accidents after Engine Failure and includes ready-to-copy suggestions for improvement. Download this report | Top |
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Comments on Flight and Training Manuals |
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PA-44-180 Seminole documents
A limited review of PA-44-180 Seminole documents, as used by flight schools (and also by other PA-44 owners). It should also be useful to operators of other multi-engine airplane types. Read the introduction to this paper | Download this paper | Top |
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Boeing 737-200/300/400 FCTM
An analysis of the Engine Failure Takeoff Procedures in the Boeing 737-200/300/400 Flight Crew Training Manual. This analysis was written following a review of the accident investigation report of the accident with an Algerian 737 on 6 March 2003. Read the introduction to this analysis | Download this analysis | Top This analysis includes an abbreviated
version of the report Airplane Control after Engine Failure as an
attachment, which is also downloadable separately here. |
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FAA
Multi-Engine Safety Review
The FAA Course on Multi-Engine Safety Review, that is presented on the FAASafety website, was reviewed by AvioConsult using the knowledge of experimental flight testing. The comments were mailed to the FAA Director of Flight Standards Service with the recommendation to remove the course from the Internet, until it is improved. No response was received. Download this report | Top |
Supplemental Analyses of Accidents |
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Lockheed C-130H,
Netherlands
15 July 1996
An analysis written by AvioConsult with comments on the formal accident investigation report and the real cause of the accident. Read the introduction to this analysis | Download this analysis | Top |
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Saab
SF-340,
Netherlands
4 April 1994
A thorough 10-page Supplementary Analysis of this accident, written using the data of the Flight Data Recorder that are included in the formal Aircraft Accident Investigation Report and the knowledge of experimental flight-test techniques that are used to determine VMCA. Read the introduction to this analysis | Download this analysis | Top |
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Cessna
404,
Australia
11 Aug. 2003
A supplemental analysis to the formal accident investigation report, written by AvioConsult, using experimental flight-test expertise, is available for download: Read the introduction to this analysis | Download this analysis | Top If you have not already downloaded and read the abbreviated version of the report Airplane Control after Engine Failure, please do so here before reading the supplemental analysis. |
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Beech
C90,
Australia
27 Nov. 2001
A supplemental analysis to the formal accident investigation report, written by AvioConsult, using experimental flight-test expertise, is available for download: Read the introduction to this analysis | Download this analysis | Top If you have not already downloaded and read the abbreviated version of the report Airplane Control after Engine Failure, please do so here before reading the supplemental analysis. |
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Piper PA-31,
New Zealand,
17 Dec 2002
At this time, only an introduction to this analysis is available. Only a limited supplemental analysis is available for download at this time. Read the introduction to this analysis | Download the limited analysis | Top |
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Mitsubishi
MU-2B,
USA 10 Dec. 2004
A supplemental analysis to the formal accident investigation report, written by AvioConsult, using experimental flight-test expertise, is available for download: Read the introduction to this analysis | Download this report | Top If you have not already downloaded and read the abbreviated version of the report Airplane Control after Engine Failure, please do so here before reading the supplemental analysis. |
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Boeing 747,
Netherlands
4 October 1992
No written supplemental analysis is available yet. The accident occurred during the approach after the two right hand engines dropped of the wing. To the opinion of AvioConsult, out of control due to not observing the requirements and conditions for VMCA2 to be valid is the cause of the accident. This is thoroughly explained in the report Airplane Control after Engine Failure, presented above. Read the introduction to this analysis | Top |
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Downloads in the Dutch Language |
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Lockheed C-130H,
Netherlands
15 July 1996
An analysis written by AvioConsult (in the Dutch language) with comments on the formal accident investigation report. If you would like to receive a version in the English language, a translation can be made. Please contact AvioConsult. Read the introduction to this analysis | Download this analysis | Top |
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Piper PA-44-180, Netherlands 14 August 2002
The analysis (in Dutch language) with comments on the formal accident investigation report. Read the introduction to this paper | Download this analysis | Top |
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Collegedictaat Prof Dr.
Gerlach
Part of a college book of Prof. Dr. Gerlach (in Dutch) with additional notes on VMCA. Read the introduction to this paper | Download this paper | Top |
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Veilig
Vliegen met een uitgevallen motor The very first publication of AvioConsult on the subject of Prevention of Airplane Accidents after Engine Failure, written in 1999 in Dutch, following the Hercules accident. It was published in the Air Force flight safety magazine 'Veilig Vliegen' and in the Yearbook 2000 of the Netherlands Association of Aeronautical Engineers. Read the introduction to this paper | Download this paper | Top |
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