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Old 5th February 2001 | 23:52
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Clear STATUS
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The Airbus is great with one engine out.....relatively low workload. Airbus has a concept of a Beta target. It doesn't respond like the usual sideslip indicator as the most modern aircraft use spoilers to augment roll. What the beta target commands is enough sideslip to prevent roll spoiler deployment.

Climbing away to 400ft aal, the usual things to do are to select TOGA and trim (unless very light...Vma/Vmcg etc). The manual trim selector on the A320 demands 1 degree a second but the autopilot in it's much less. (The A330 is 1deg/sec for the 1.5 seconds and 3 deg/sec there after...flap/slats extended). So trim first (15 deg out of the full 20 is a good ball park figure) and then autopilot in.

The approach is a little different. The Airbus flies a great deccelerated approach on a single engine and even autolands with them too. I think it is easier though to select manual thrust if in manual flight. The usual pre-emptive 'power up - foot up'. It is easier to trim using the faster rate of rudder trim that is available. Having said that if the other conditions dictate stick to an autoland!!!

Hands off after the failure the aircraft will climb away with bank angle increasing to about 5 degrees and it will stay there. Why you want to, i don't know but nice to know!!! It uses the lateral normal law to contain the failure.


[This message has been edited by Clear STATUS (edited 05 February 2001).]