Post by CoolP on Mar 19th, 2011 at 3:48pm
Good question about the FADEC + FBW stuff. There are some reported incidents where they only had a fallback engine (last active) state or one which does everything, but no shut down.
On first view, the "manual shut down" at the airport looks very odd. Last seen on that Qantas A380 (I think). Firetrucks giving all they've got to cause a flameout on an engine which is proven to withstand quite some water until this happens.
They've said that they had control over the engine (wasn't the blown one, but it's neighbour, #1) concerning the power output, but couldn't shut it down.
So the list of personnel being able to shut down an engine looks like this.
1) Pilots
2) FE (if present)
3) Fire Fighter
4) Baggage cart driver (doesn't necessarily have to be present at shutdown)
4 times redundancy, now that's what I call safe. ;D
Always a tradeoff it seems, going from old and mechanic to anything newer, avoiding surges, increasing efficiency and stuff.
Maybe the manual shutdown leads to things like this then?
Do you have any favourite approaches which (maybe) still are very demanding or nice, even in the sim?
On first view, the "manual shut down" at the airport looks very odd. Last seen on that Qantas A380 (I think). Firetrucks giving all they've got to cause a flameout on an engine which is proven to withstand quite some water until this happens.
They've said that they had control over the engine (wasn't the blown one, but it's neighbour, #1) concerning the power output, but couldn't shut it down.
So the list of personnel being able to shut down an engine looks like this.
1) Pilots
2) FE (if present)
3) Fire Fighter
4) Baggage cart driver (doesn't necessarily have to be present at shutdown)
4 times redundancy, now that's what I call safe. ;D
Always a tradeoff it seems, going from old and mechanic to anything newer, avoiding surges, increasing efficiency and stuff.
Maybe the manual shutdown leads to things like this then?
Do you have any favourite approaches which (maybe) still are very demanding or nice, even in the sim?