PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - light aircraft engines
View Single Post
Old 26th Nov 2021, 23:43
  #38 (permalink)  
MarcK
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: California
Posts: 385
Likes: 0
Received 11 Likes on 8 Posts
Originally Posted by jonkster
In traditional piston engined aircraft, the most unreliable component (and most likely cause of engine stoppage) , I would suspect by a considerable margin, is one component widely used in the fuel and engine management systems, the pilot.

I wonder if the same faulty component will be repurposed for use in future electric aircraft? If so I suspect it may also become the weak point in that technology as well.
Extrapolating from other requirements... just require two of them.
MarcK is offline