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Old 19th December 2005 | 18:04
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mutleyfour
 
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Ive personally only ever had one spool down in over 2000 hrs, it was a fractured fuel pipe to the FCU. Started in hover but recovered during subsequent descent due to labrynth sealing caused by the airflow past the pipe. Luckily for me i was hovering at 2000 ft at the time so loads of time to recover. The pipe was fractured about 70% of its circumferance.

Another spot of luck was that it was operational so we carried out fast approach and landing as normal. I fear the worst had we carried out a normal sight picture approach.
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