Originally Posted by
Fursty Ferret
Do you routinely do single-engine taxi on arrival? The bowed rotor motoring is likely dependent on time spent at idle before shutdown, not necessarily temperature at start-up.
Hello Fursty Ferret,
It’s not very common in my company. I personally do it for fuel and brakes saving at some airports but our home base very seldom as the taxi in is generally very short (less than 5 minutes). I did not know that the bowed rotor motoring was linked to how long was the engine on idle on the last flight. Do you suggest that in case of a single engine taxi in after landing, a cooling time of only 3 min and engine 2 shut down might be the reason required for a rotor monitoring only applicable for that engine the next day for the first flight?
Thanks.