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Old 7th Dec 2005, 17:57
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richarddx
 
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Flying Fiona, are you are real pilot? You certainly don't sound like one, unless it's MSFS or something...

Let's have a look at what happens when a twin engine jetliner loses an engine on departure

1) The aircraft cannot perform as it is designed to. It may be unlikely that it can climb anove 17,000-25,000ft, in which case its fuel consumption on ONE engine may be three times higher than on two working engines. The airspeed will be a lot lower, as will the ground speed, at lower altitude so it will take a lot longer to reach its destination, if the crew were dumb enough to think it wasn't important that an engine had failed.

2) The working engine would have to operate at abnormally high rotational speed and temperatures throughout the rest of the flight to provide enough thrust, and this would cause considerable wear and tear in a short period of time and possibly induce a second failure. Engines can operate at such settings but NOT for prolonged periods of time.

3) The dumb action to continue to the destination on one engine would put many people's lives at a huge risk for many reasons, also because each engine in a jet liner often independantly powers different parts of the electrical system etc... then the aircraft may lose electraulic/hydraulic REDUNDANCY as well, and parts of the system may fail to operate at all.

So basically, you need to grow up and stop talking for good before you have. It is clearly a dangerous emergency situation. And as for calling the English "alarmists" about such matters, try telling that to the utterly stupid British Airways crew who crossed the Atlantic on3 of their 747's 4 engines after one failed. With your ideas, you're more stupid than they are.
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