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.
Sorry, no. There is a vast difference technically between a flame out and uncommanded low RPM condition. Vast. To the pilot the results are largely the same, but to the engineer trying to understand the problem and develop a fix, the difference is not only vast, it is critical. It has less than nothing to do with gamesmanship and nothing to do with lawyers.