Just a bit of insider's look for the benefit of the gallery:
There are no such things as odd-engine out approaches in the Buff. All approach and landing data is calculated on pod losses, not individual engines. So when you lose an engine in the Buff, you behave as though you lost that pod.
In training this is a non-difference, as there is no structural damage to the pylon. On this particular example however, there is very much a structural eccentricity introduced with the loss of one engine, plus a by-default damage to the cowling of the adjoining engine, so that engine gets idled or shut down for FOD. Precautionary engine shutdowns for oil pressure are about the only exception to the even-engine reality of multi-engine work in the Buff.
Of course, pilot judgement rules the decision making process of whether to make use of the remaining engine in that pod, and that is largely a function of gross weight and what the location of the engine losses are relative to each other. A light weight Buff can be taken-around with only **4 engines , allowing you in theory to shoot the approach with the mirror engine idled, hence no thrust asymmetry of consequence.
**(4 engine out on one side is a statistically unrecoverable situation if taken to a go-around, so the decision is often made early as to whether to attempt to recover or just abandon the aircraft before directional control is lost in flight).
That's one hell of a "oh you failed one engine? Watch this brotato chips" thing for an FAA DPE on a multi checkride, if one was allowed lol.
That said, these things will continue to increase in frequency as the AF struggles to retain 10-15 year experienced operators and maintainers, and human life will be lost as a result of this greening of experience. Refer to last year's PGUA overrun. But social gender issues and political correctness appear to be a higher priority for the society that pays for our training and equipment, so they get the military they deserve. Pilots at least, are hemorrhaging through the doors regardless of bonuses. They joined to fly and fight, not fill out ancillary duty forms and be socially chastised regarding their personal behavior at home because of the grievances of social minorities and selfie-taking women's incorporation into a male-deployed-dominated workplace. And I digress before this gets political.
Bottom line, I'm proud of the job I did, but I'm even happier I'm out of that leper colony of a community.They will NEVER re-engine the Buff. It is paid for and left there to sunset in its golden years as the last bastion of the cold war's triad. A source of bitterness and frustration for the crews that fly it, as they are largely kept out of current conventional conflicts, sans the most benign of turkey shoots aka Syria. Even Libya was deemed too hot for the Buff in modernity. A mission set comprised of perennial posturing practice bleeding doesn't make a good community to grow talent you can retain.
Now back to your regular variation of the 7-engine joke post regurgitation.
