Originally Posted by 777fly
If you only smelt KFC and the engine parameters were normal, how could you be sure the bird didn't go into an air-con pack intake? Would you have turned back for that? Its a subjective judgement for the pilot, but what is your , or your company's definition of an engine failure?
??????? I guess you better revise your aircon pack operating theory 777fly. Pack intakes are for cooling airflow for engine bleed air. If you were to get a bird into a pack intake only and smell KFC then you have a seriously damaged heat exchanger and would also need to return as the pack probably wouldn't pressurise and would be leaking hot bleed air into the pack bays with all the fire and other associated implications of that.