HOTEL MODE??
I just read the early reports / translations/news articles and it says the planes right engine went into IDLE MODE. Still having oil pressure.
COULD the right prop somehow gone into HOTEL MODE (which as many of you know puts a ''brake'' on the right prop to allow the engine to be used to run a generator, while on the ground instead of an apu)?
The translation is the thing I guess. And what do they mean by idle mode. And do they mean if for the prop? There is Beta Mode, Alpha mode, HOTEL mode.
Could the crew have thought that the left engine was producing too much power when in reality the right engine/prop was reversing? Could that be why they shut the left down?
And yet the video shows the left engine/prop turning so slowly if at all. could they have suddenly gotten the right engine back but were below vmca?
So many questions.