Originally Posted by
ironbutt57
how did a dyslexic EXPAT save the day...please tell
ROFL Thanks for the highlight of an otherwise forgettable day.
Thanks 'but57.
As long as there have been more than one noise maker, drivers have been shutting down the wrong one. Personally have had guy grab the wrong lever in a 2 engine, and on a 4 engine, the latter, grabbing the #4 shutdown handle and saying confirm "confirm #1...". Stuff happens. This crew got the righteous engine up and running again in short order, recovering from their faux pas. Shades of a B767 over the water west of LAX.
Want to reduce such failures, improve the HMI interface, get rid of extraneous warm fuzzy stuff that has no benefit to the decision process in the cockpit. Improve the training for failures, we are effectively trained to be trigger happy just to complete the matrix in 4 hour sessions, rather than to review the decision making before flicking switches.
A comment was made earlier about confirmation in a shutdown; there is a widespread problem in the inflight restart as well where the confirmation is frequently missed after the selection of fuel to run, where the actioning pilot removes his hand from the fuel control during the process, and in the event of an aborted start fuel chops the engine without confirmation. A perennial problem from a bad checklist and bad training, not limited to any particular airline or aircraft. Usually not a problem with corporate or military jets, where the fuel cutoff is a gated position on the thrust level except with a start in a descent where both throttles may be close to idle.