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Old 15th May 2014, 00:52
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They belch black smoke distress signals and the fuel consumption goes into the ****ter, but generally they can keep running to a degree.
Yup. FADEC adjusts injectors for inlet pressure & temperature. To the maximum extent that it is programmed for.

If that happened over the mountains, I would ... increase power on t'other engine to compensate.

You wouldn't fly a single over the Rockies now would you Jaba?

Seriously though, once the bugs are ironed out of a new design (which will take several years to a decade) it is likely to be just as reliable as any other design. There is no evidence that a CI TC engine (to give it the strictly correct title) is intrinsically less reliable than an engine with spark plugs.

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