bubbers 44:
thanks for telling us about your event. it sounds like you were ahead of the power curve with the aux bus move.
I didn't want to put a negative spin on this event. But something wasn't quite right.
We can all remember the valujet/everglade thing. Certainly flames are different than odor or smoke, but the ability to get her down, fast somewhere should be in the back of our minds as pilots. that is why I mentioned santa barbara, vandenberg AFB and point magu nas. When I flew out of Santa Barbara, TRACOR used to bring DC10's into the field to work on them.
landing against traffic means time critical, emergency to me.
evacuating on the runway means emergency to me.
we shall see how this all works out.