Question for Pilots

[Louro]

Some of you might remember that I have a novel on kindle and I have been helped by forum members in the past. I ask for help from you good folks once more.

When a two-engine aircraft loses its' port engine or wing does it veer right or left? Obviously, it goes down but does it go right or left?

I'm working on a story about terrorism.

Thanks.

Are you including the right wingers in this particular story? LOL,

 

[rswink]

I just remember that both "left" and "port" have 4 letters. The other one is "right".


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I always use short words and long words. Left is short and right is long. Port is short and starboard is long. But I kept thinking of them as short and long side at times, confused others.

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[rlongnt]

The first time a Marine recruit moves every single thing in their squad bay to port, starboard, aft, forward back wash rinse & repeat for half an hour straight they are rendered incapable of ever forgetting which side is which... LOL

 

[SoonerP226]

Thank you!!

BTW, the way I remember which is which, is this memory device:

Is there any port wine left?

A friend of mine told me a memory device that also helps with marker lights: all the short words go together and all the long words go together, so you have port/left/red and starboard/right/green.

 

[gerhard1]

Are you including the right wingers in this particular story? LOL,

The bad guys are Muslim terrorists whose objective is to free one of their co-religionists from AdMax, Florence.

 

[rlongnt]

A friend of mine told me a memory device that also helps with marker lights: all the short words go together and all the long words go together, so you have port/left/red and starboard/right/green.

Another good one is red right returning. It works for aircraft coming at you and also for maritime markers returning to your home port in the channel.

 

[Aries]

I just remember that both "left" and "port" have 4 letters. The other one is "right".


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That's how I remember it. Both "right" and "starboard" have more than four letters.

 

[skyhawk1]

Now if you're flying a Cessna 336 or 337 it just goes down

 

[HoLeChit]

The first time a Marine recruit moves every single thing in their squad bay to port, starboard, aft, forward back wash rinse & repeat for half an hour straight they are rendered incapable of ever forgetting which side is which... LOL

I still forget, but my platoon got a lot of grief for it. I still remember all of us being told to push our racks to the starboard side, and we kept having a few of us mess it up, so we slid our racks back and forth for a good hour or so. Drill instructors never would tell us if we did it right and there’s was always one guy who was wrong, or would get it right and the rest of us got it wrong. Good times.

 

[xseler]

Now if you're flying a Cessna 336 or 337 it just goes down

Not unless you've just taken off.....Skymasters for the win!!