Re: Now Boarding ... Chicken or Beef?
I asked the instructor if he could set this up for me during the sim session this morning, and told him it was a "recommendation" from a Qantas pilot I "knew". The instructor looked at me, laughed, and said "clearly he doesn't like you very much" 
Anyway, for whatever reason, the instructor didn't actually set up this exact scenario. Instead he gave me a complete failure of the left outboard engine at 160 knots, which in this case was V1 + 10 knots (or about VR - 10 knots) with the "aircraft" configured at MTOW. It... did not end well. 
But, in my defence, I was confused because I thought I was getting an aborted take-off, and also thought I'd get a "bang" (or similar) plus coughpit warnings when the engine "failed", neither of which happened (he explained the fact that the coughpit warnings are disabled during take-off afterwards - interesting). At least, that's my story - and I'm sticking to it!! 
Unfortunately we didn't have time to try this - I'm dying to know what is so eye-opening about it, can you fill me in? Does the big imbalance of thrust at low speed produce severe yaw?
On a completely different note to the above, the instructor turned off the yaw dampers for me at one point - wow, does that make things feel uncomfortable (perhaps just because I can't actually fly a plane?)! Have you even had to fly a big jet without yaw dampers?
Thanks again for you advice, too!
