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Old 19th Sep 2014, 16:46
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Microburst2002
 
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The worst case would be arriving to destination with just enough fuel with one failure only and then something else becomes u/s and then you see yourself in the ELEC EMER.
You do the drill quickly and after L/G down the runway lights or something don't work and you cannot land there anymore. You have minimum diversion fuel, but now you need three times as much to reach an alternate and three times as much to stay in the air for 30 min.
It is very likely that you don't even have fuel for 30 min, so you are instantaneously in a fuel emergency.
In that situation I would probably choose to retract than to starve and crash land somewhere. Even ditching is not a good choice, with L/G down.
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