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Old 12th Jul 2006, 14:12
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rodthesod
 
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Originally Posted by JW411

When the power comes on again it is Nos. 1, 2 and 4 throttles that go forward and that is when the disaster started. You will note that No.3 remains at flight idle.

Therefore the only engines that were responding were Nos. 1 and 4. The No.2 throttle was connected to a dead engine!

Amazingly not one of them noticed that a perfectly good engine (No. 3) had been left at flight idle!
As I said a month (16 posts) ago, 'Does the C-5 have auto-rudder when asymmetric? If not shouldn't the lack of footload with oei have given a clue?' (i.e. when using the symmetrical thrust of 1 & 4)
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