MEL Generation
Each engine has two generators, so if you depart with one engine generator MEL'd, you have three other engine generators available. Should you lose the APU battery and APU, you still have three engine generators available to provide power. Even if you should lose the engine with two good generators and the APU, you still have one engine generator available and it can carry the load.
If this is the case why would you need the APU if an Engine Generator is inoperative, if you think One Engine Electrical system can provide all the power for 2 Electrically driven Air conditioning Units, 2 Center Electrical Hydraulic Pumps, All the Fuel Pumps, IFE, Electric Deicing, the list goes on...
The 777 & 767 cannot meet all the electrical loads with one Engine generator and that has pneumatic Air conditioning, Air Driven Pump, Pneumatic deicing...
Is the 787 safe to fly in its current format and with the Band aid fix?
No way!
Last edited by Goddamnslacker; 16th Apr 2013 at 07:22.