Originally Posted by
olster
Yup, love it when pprune gets personal from all the experts out there. Firstly SETO has not been around for many years. Most CPs (sic) know the square root of foxtrot alpha. The fact that there has not been an incident does not mean that the procedure has been robustly risk assessed. I am not going down the road of saying which aircraft I fly or have flown as we are now in the standard willy waving pprune scene whereby x has eg 28,000 and ergo they are the fount of all wisdom. I have flown a mixture of Boeings including 737 and 747 ( including instructor / examiner) also Airbus A340 and instructor on A380. I currently work as an instructor for a well known manufacturer. Hope that helps. I don’t pretend to be the definitive expert but I have been around.
Yet once you become chief pilot somewhere, I’m quite sure you will not abolish the practice of single engine taxi operations. The argument that the aircraft might have to come to a complete stop necessitating ‘triple fuel flow’ on the live engine to start moving again will be negated by the hundreds of other crews who are able to sensibly shut down an engine taking all variables into consideration, coasting in beautifully and effortlessly to the gate.
But you have piqued my curiosity. How does your current employer (the aircraft manufacturer) regard single engine operations? Do they agree with you? Do they discourage the practice? And do they communicate that to the pilots of their aircraft?