Was contributing to this thread this morning before it was relocated. As Robin1953 points out FADEC is a mixture of many things and only parts of it could fail, not the whole lot. I recall that the manual said the whole system is designed VERY carefully because if it did all fail the engines would go to idle. So the thought of the FADEC system failing is.............hang on a minute NSandI have just called me and I have won a million on the premium bonds!