Originally Posted by M609
Rough translation: "With only a few kilometers left to go to Säve (ESGP) in Gothenburg the aircrafts two computers where knocked out, simultaneously. The engine was ideling and could not be reved up again"
Now, I still have a steel cable from the plunger to the carb on the aircraft I fly. What do you think the above quote actually mean?
It means that the DA40-D is a fly-by-wire aeroplane, at least as far as the engine is concerned. If both the primary and backup ECUs fail, it becomes a glider. Needless to say, the redundancy should make that an unlikely event, so I'm sure a lot of people will be wondering what went wrong here.