Originally Posted by
Airbubba
There is definitely some gamesmanship in the terminology in these technical issues. I remember years ago the company claimed it had a flameout on an engine and the manufacturer said that the engine made an uncommanded transition to a low RPM sub-idle condition. I presume a lot of this is from the legal department.
Not at all
It is simply engineering terms which define the actual problem in terms that support corrective actions.
Too often slang definitions creep into the news to facilitate baseline communication with the public. In my view the engineer who designed and certifies the product owns the definitions against the design assumptions
Examples of areas that most confuse the issue are Buzz words , like fire, thermal damage, rapid oxidation.and where they apply as well as flame-out, surge, stall, seizure and where they apply.
of course anything that is uncommanded worries me from the get-go
