PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Thomson A/C In flight shutdown
View Single Post
Old 3rd May 2007, 14:45
  #61 (permalink)  
DooblerChina
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the real world
Posts: 377
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
All operators have their own take on SOP's however I suspect they are all broadly similar. In Tom's case autopilot use is highly recommended / expected on 1 engine. Most people tend to use it after flap retraction/some earlier. It would be difficult to justify hand flying for extended periods.

With regards to landing we cannot plan to autoland on 1 engine, therefore this was a manual landing. The 75 can autoland on 1 engine but under strict guidelines - i.e. you must be planning to autoland and the failure occurs below 1500' when all of the failsafes have kicked in.

Just watched the video for the first time and everyone involved should be thoroughly proud of themselves. I think ATC deserves a special mention as it seems they couldn't have been more helpful.

Doobler
DooblerChina is offline