Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Amen. Absolutely. When you think about machinery - especially an engine - and all the internal forces and stresses it is withstanding hundreds of times a second; the more you can avoid adding to those stresses, the better !...........
......... and, I forgot to mention in my last post, a key point - well, in my view at least.
By bringing the power up slowly it has 2 added benefits even with FADEC. If you simply bang the power lever up and rely on the FADEC to "sort it" you've sort of entered a "deal" with the FADEC and engine - "I'm at full power ...... now you catch up!". Of course, that's fine if it all works as it should but..........
By bringing the power up slowly, firstly, you give yourself time to listen to, and even watch the instruments (if appropriate and you can), to check the engine is responding as you expect it to (ie is the power coming in smoothly as expected and in sync with my demand or, wait, what on earth is that odd noise????????.........) which leads, secondly, to the fact you can immediately start to bring the power back again
from the point you first notice that something doesn't seem quite right.
As an Engineer my 1st Golden Rule has always been - "Never trust technology!". Works quite well that one!!!!!!
