Thoughts on this?
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...ngine-row.html
Evidently, if you have a flat battery in a Twinstar you should only use external power to start one engine, remove the external and wait until the other engine can be started internally or the lack of charge will cause the ECU to shut BOTH of them down, autofeather and cause you to throw an expensive piece of kit on the floor.
Obviously, know your aircraft applies but who would have thought that starting both engines on external power would result in a double engine failure?
I'm sure many of us could have been caught by this and it makes you wonder what other 'gotchas' are out there in the modern systems.
Incidentally, I still think its a fantastic 'plane but after a search I could find no other mention of this on here so I thought I would pass it on for everone's perusal and comment
Regards
Xraf
