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Old 29th Apr 2013, 19:12
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I know I said I wouldn't return to this thread but regarding re-starting the engine........

Modern engines are SUPER reliable. They don't fail without reason (obviously ). Once it's failed, it's a known quantity i.e. you've lost a GEN, a BLEED and a HYD - all of which are usually backed up with redundancy. If you restart it then it's an unknown quantity - is it going to fail again on short final? Is it going to fail again only more spectacularly?

You may want to restart it to get the services but as propulsion unit - after it's "failed" I would treat it as unusable and get it on the ground pronto and hand it over to the engineers. If it restarts ok, are you then going to continue on to your destination 2,3 or 4 hours away?

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