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Old 12th Feb 2010, 21:41
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Accepting Veeany's observation, I think you are right birddog to draw attention to the need for a clear understanding of the different TR failure modes. I suggest anyone needs to spend some time thinking about those different modes in whatever type they fly to try and establish the likely symptoms. They can be described in different ways, but do usually boil down to soemthing like:

- Loss of thrust
- Loss of component (plus loss of thrust?)
- stuck pedal (different sorts)

One of the things that I recall is the suggestion that in some TR failures (stuck pedal) you can afford to take your time and experiment, whilst in other cases there may be a very limited time available to sort the thing out (loss of component).
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