Originally Posted by
Nightstop
I do OETD a lot. When 40% N1 isn’t sufficient to get moving, I find a little temporary NWS input away from the live engine does the trick
When one uses 40% in one engine you lose pretty much all the fuel savings.
One engine taxi fuel savings is not calculated with the fuel flow at 40% to get moving. Right ?
it defeats the purpose with the safety margin of having someone monitor your engine start visually gone.
As stated before have missed frequency changes and heads down, have caused taxi issues for us, increasing workload,
not worth it unless your are number 12, in a easy taxi environment.
In a short taxi scenario. ( A long wait at the holding point is another thing ) Go ahead to save your bosses 15 kgs of fuel, if you have to go back to the parking for engine problem or have a taxi incident, or rushed checklist thats your choice? Is it really worth it to save your managers maybe 20kgs of fuel?