Originally Posted by
Roj approved
That’s not actually correct, it’s something that “became a thing” after someone in the check department, that hadn’t flown a 777, read the FCOM and decided the leave his mark.
Hydraulic pumps....R, C1,C2, L...All ON.
So then rather than start on the right and turn all pumps on in a Right to Left motion, the Atom was split and we had to go R, C1, C2 ,L. The logic of the system chose which Centre pump it wanted to use.
The reason given for this was that “it caused a fault on the 777”, but none of the 777 experienced pilots or the Boeing instructors that did our endorsement had ever heard of this.
OK. That doesn’t surprise me.
As I said I’d never flown the 777 and just going by what I was told during conversion by those that had probably not flown the 777 either.
Some of our colleagues like to make things more difficult than they need to be.