S76 A++ Question
Hi Nick,
Was sitting around with C & T and Flight Safety and a couple of other captains last night. We begin discussing why our 2 A++'s regularly, once one of the engines has been started and is in the Flight Gate, and you go to start the 2nd engine and it won't light off after approximaly 6 seconds. You then pull the lever back to cut off, wait the 30 secs and attempt restart and it then fires up just like the first. We have 1s1 engines fitted.
Our engineers have apparently spoken to Arriel in France and they claim its just us who has this problem. They then have spoken to engineers at ESSO in Longford, Vic who operate C+ machines with same engine and have the same problem occur.
We have been informed that what happens is as the 2nd engine is spinning faster on the initial start up than it would if it was the 1st engine started and he FCU is introducing too much fuel into the engine. Have you heard of this before and if so is there a fix.
Cheers & Beers
LT