Thread jack~ oh wait, maybe thread back to track:
Sometimes flying the ~57 at night, IMC, over water, I think to myself- damn, one engine. Sweet!
But one REALLY good engine.
When I was flying the T-34 over to the Bahamas for range duty, a friend of the family who's been flying since he was 15 (he's in his 60's now) voiced concern about making the trip from PBI to Nassau in one leg with a single engine. He's a smart pilot with all kinds of knowledge (both as an A&P as well as a pilot), but he just hasn't been exposed, first hand, to the reliability of the PT-6 (or Allison) or to how we operate in general, over water as a Naval Service (I mean everyone...Navy, CG, Marines).
Ironically, this is the same guy, a year or so later, that helped a well-known female aviator take her Mooney from the US to the Azores in record time (as in she was trying for a record). So he obviously got over his SE "liability" fear.