Hard to stay current with all the writing going on so quickly in this thread... Maybe someone's already said this? But our -300's back in the 90's were all placarded with a nice big, red placard in front of both pilots, cautioning crew to "MAINTAIN AT LEAST 45% N1 WHEN OPERATING IN RAIN OR VISIBLE MOISTURE." This was done in deference to the CFM-56's tendency (small core dia) to lose its fire too easily during water ingestion. Keeping rpm up I suppose was the engineers solution to avoiding unpowered flight. Are those placards still on 737 dashboards? Can some of you pro's address this? What's it like to fly in those monsoon rains out in Bali? Could it be like ingesting birds, with similar loss of options and similar outcomes like Sully experienced?
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