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Old 21st Jun 2013, 16:20
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con-pilot

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One does not warm up a gas turbine - it's not necessary.
Not necessarily. There are airports with extremely low ambient temperatures that when a jet aircraft is parked outside overnight, one has to wait for the oil temperature to reach a minimum temperature after start, as not to exceed the maximum oil pressure allowable for takeoff.

I have also operated at airports that I had to pre-heat jet engines prior to start, as not to risk the starter shafts from breaking*, again only if the aircraft remained outside overnight due to the low ambient temperatures.



* I saw a Lear 24 shear the starter shafts on both engines one morning in Gunnison, Colorado. We tried to tell them, but....

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