Multi-engine airplanes offer more speed, more payload, more sophistication, and to many, a perceived increase in safety. Face it: In a single, if you lose an engine your options are limited to a forced landing. In a piston twin, that second engine typically won’t give you much (or any) climb and might not even be enough to maintain altitude. But it’ll certainly extend your capabilities and open up more opportunities for a safe on-airport landing—if your skills are sharp enough.
Garmin’s Smart Rudder Bias (SRB), which is built into the GFC 600 autopilot for limited applications, is intended to backstop a skill you should have learned in the first hour of multi-engine training. I recently tried it out in Garmin’s Baron 58 with Jessica Koss at the company’s flight ops HQ in Olathe, Kansas.