Chinook Question?
Hi All
I am currently reading Eye of the Storm by Peter Ratcliffe about his time in the SAS.
In this book he mentions getting onto a Chinook in Saudi Arabia during desert storm when " The aircraft began to shake preparatory to take-off, the pilot suddenly shuts down. The racket and vibration suddenly began to dininish and the rotors began to slow.The pilot announced we have a problem its either a fuel blockage or its the hydraulics. If it is fuel it will be 30 min if it is hydraulics we'll be at least 2 hours."
It ends up been hydraulics and the flight is delayed.
When I first read this I dismissed the facts initially as I could not think of any problem on the types I fly that would have me confused between those two systems. So my initial reaction was that the author probably has his facts mixed up. However in his book he appears to try to be factual so to any Chinook drivers out the is there any problems you can develop that would need checking both systems and what would cause them? or has the Author made a mistake?
Cheers