Training for my multi-engine rating years ago was in a Piper Apache. It was a good, inexpensive training aircraft, but it lulled me into a false sense of security about VMC. I thought a VMC rollover was just caused by the torque of the good engine/drag of the failed engine and the lack of rudder authority at low speeds. I thought a VMC demonstration was a pretty benign affair, no big deal. I was wrong.
VMC Awakening
Fortunately, I got my VMC awakening in a simulator. I was a newly minted multiengine pilot with little multi-engine time. Sawyer Aviation at Sky Harbor in Phoenix had a generic light-twin simulator and I jumped at the chance to get checked out in it, and even flew it solo.
