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Old 31st October 2005 | 12:23
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lomapaseo
 
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I agree about the basics of the standard sim check without this added what-if

However it is not entirely unlikely (about 2 a year) that one of you will get a somewhat similar event when taking off into a flock of birds which completely knocks out one engine and damages the second.

So you clean up start to comeback. With the second engine damaged you find that you can't get more than 60-70% out of it without sending the EGT into the red or causing it to surge. Obviously you aren't going to shut it down to idle so you set it to achieve its max safe thrust and fly the airplane leaving that engine alone as long as you can in case you should stuff it up.

OK, also not entirely unlikely (about 1 a year) the fuel control (not the thrust lever) gets a bit of dirt stuck in one of its valves and locks it up at 60% without any control by the pilot except the fuel shutoff.

Now I'm not pushing to include these rare scenarios in your simulation training, but I would like you to consider whether you feel you are ready to handle such an event based on your current state of training?
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