Jammedstab:
Anybody know why he was intending to select both the EEC's off in the first place at such a low altitude?
tdracer:
the 'half a broomstick' switch guards ACMS referenced as an interim fix until the EEC switches could be moved
Apologies for the thread drift, but it's an interesting diversion. The 'interim fix' was nothing short of brilliant because for a few cents it stopped clever dick co-pilots like me wrapping 4 fingers around the two cut off switches and shutting both off at once - very neat at the right time, but potentially fatal if for whatever reason the 'shut down' action got triggered wrongly. Jammedstab's pertinent question is not quite the right one: the prompt to go to the EEC switchlights was the EEC warning, the question should be 'why did he go for the cut-off switches instead?'. Probably no one knows, but if you've ever put salt in coffee, right action, wrong time, you can sort of understand. Once the EEC switches were moved to the overhead panel (took about a year to get through our fleet), then, in a really dumb move, the simple switch guards were removed, presumably on the questionable assumption that
only the EEC lights would trigger the wrong action.... hmmm