Originally Posted by Sunfish
I remember the infamous starter on the totally unreliable Garret APU. Some pilots apparently left the right engine running at outports rather than risk trying to use the APU.
I concur with Cilba. I don't recall any dramas with the APU in the F28 on the west coast in the 80s. Must have been an east-coast thing.
We may have had an "engine swap" procedure in case the APU wouldn't start but I never saw it. In the early days there was a procedure where another F28 would park skew-if across the rear end of the dead one, both connected by an bleed air pipe, to provide an air source to facilitate a rescue. I don't know whether that was still in fashion during the latter stages.
Flight controls = 10/10.