My next session I decided to take on something serious: single-engine work. I'm so spoiled flying the 737NG. With so much excess power, barring a major fire or an uncontained failure with structural damage and loss of associated systems, an engine failure is practically a non-event. (I've never lost an engine outside the sim in the CFM-equipped 737. I did lose one while flying the IAE-powered A320.) Not so in a multi-engined recip. Lose one fan in a piston twin and you're generally flying an airplane with very marginal flight characteristics.
A successful outcome usually depends on doing the right thing at the right time. In my case, pretty much everything I did after securing the #2 engine was off, although I didn't realize I had set myself up for trouble until I was on final. The Reader's Digest version is "Boned the approach..."
"...bought the lumberyard."
Managed to put the nose between the trees. The only casualties were the airplane and my pride.
