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Based on my own one time issue....

If not prepared for glide ration with prop feathered, it can be startling.

It is easy to forget the 337 has something like a 12:1 glide ratio.
If you feather the rear prop, (instead of just throttle back),
the 337 becomes a sail plane.

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My one rear out even decades ago was rather ....amusing, and educational.

The rear engine started burping just a few miles from Potomac Airfield (home),
on a busy Saturday afternoon.

I shut it down, feathered prop, and to make room, then declared over unicom,
"Potomac traffic, 86121, straight in 24, 2 mile final, engine out'"

I throttled the front back, setup to land, and it just kept flying, and flying and flying.....
A hushed silence as everyone awaited the fireball.

The friend in the airplane with me noted, "This airplane just isn't descending !!!"

I realized I was going to overshoot our 2,600 ft runway
deep in a ravine and valley
surrounded by tall trees.

So around 300 ft up, I gave the front full power and said, "N86121, going around."

Which I did.

Realizing I was just a heavy C182, I planned better, came around again and landed.

It was loose screws on the rear mag out of maintenance.

Try THAT in another airplane!

And THAT is why I like the 337 Skymaster!
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