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Old 19th Jun 2013, 12:21
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parabellum
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Oh come on. On the track they were taking they were passing
within close range of Bergen, Keflavik, Goose Bay - there's only a small piece
of even ETOPS 60 minutes needed on this route.
WHBM - I would remind you of the Swissair MD11 off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998, Flight SR111 which is just one example that illustrates the point that when an aircraft is on fire you only have minutes to get down from altitude, configured and land before it is too late, to be successful you have to be within twenty or thirty miles, possibly fifty tops, of where you land. ETOPS of sixty minutes would be about fifty minutes too long.

Next time you are in the SIM ask the instructor to give you the exercise of a fire in the cabin at FL350.
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