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Old 20th Jul 2018, 18:09
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Lynx is an old bird, with air blown onto labyrinth type seals, that started leaking oil, when shutting down.
Happend to me, that the firetruck, on an Lynx unfamiliar airfield wanted to extinguish a smoking engine....
Could just stop them in time....

Back to the topic, which was a successful night autorotation after double engine failure, the first engine taking out the second.
Gullibel brought in the roumor, it could have been low oil pressure at the beginning, no prove so far.
The turn back, initiated by the pilot, was questioned without knowing, what actions he had done so far.

I personally think, that flying the aircraft, that is establishing OEI flight conditions, while turning to a direktion, where an autorotation is possible, is more important than diving down into the cockpit, to start to analyse, what’s going on.
At the end this saved lives, even if the bird is broken by know.
The other option would not have guaranteed, that the pilot would have been fast enough to prevent the engine going kaboom anyway - only, that he wouldn’t have had an area for the autorotation......
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