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Originally Posted by Starbear
Clearly this type of scenario is not related to Etops per se as normal rules require only 60 minutes from an airfield for a twin anyway,
Perhaps more importantly, I can't see how having two extra donks is any help if your main deck is on fire and filling the cockpit with smoke.
For some people, it does seem that just about any incident that happens to a long-haul twin is automatically the fault of ETOPS and wouldn't have happened if the a/c had been properly equipped with four donks (and a flight engineer).
As a former Flight Engineer on 3 "donkers" who flew up and down the middle of the south atlantic for many years I can assure you that ETOPS was never on my mind but ditching drills and scenarios were discussed at length. Especially after a few of my old chums found themselves floating in the Morray Firth one day.
