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Old 6th Apr 2012, 19:00
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Phantom Driver
 
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I think what he meant to say is that :now the autostart on the -8 is completely independant. i.e ,it monitors everything with no exeptions and does everything. There is not such thing as a manual start now on the -8 compared to the -400
Ahh yes; good old days. Hardest part of 744 sim could be "start faults"-(18, as I recalled). No autostart on our machines in those days, even though it came as standard on the later model-400. Management had them removed from the new deliveries (apparently to maintain fleet standardisation).

This, coupled with the official policy of no overlapping starts, (i.e have to wait till each engine was stable before starting the next) used to drive ATC (and other operators) crazy during pushback. Eventually, we resorted to the obvious--unofficial overlapping starts (not quite 2 at a time, a la Airbus, but almost) which speeded things up quite a bit.

Then the "powers that be" saw the light and incorporated it into the SOP's, and eveyone was happy.
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