God there's some brave aviators (or silly) in here, DR:8 yr my hero:E

I've been across the straight in a SE a few times but that was when I didn't know better, young & dumb & full of ......;). I would simply not do it anymore. Life is too precious to me nowadays. Flying is meant to be enjoyable, sitting there at whatever height (BLW 10 mostly) isn't my idea of enjoyable with 'H2o' under me. I don't know maybe it's just me but as they say, 'been there done that'!

Even flying out over the Pacific at night in a Lear I still didn't feel that comfy. And at the odd time having no ALT AD available miles from nowhere the thought of an engine/system failure still made me sit on the edge of my seat.
I still like this thread tough it's going down the path of my fav subject, Dr & Jaba will know what I am on about:ok:
Ok off to cross some water again, ahhhhh the sound of TWO engines, nothing like it !:E

p.s..."sms777' yr one lucky boy!:)

CW:)

how far?
 

Geez Doc,

That 'd be good for the cylinders.....I'll stick to the graph...

Did you crinkle your wings on that test,too?


Flopper

Somewhere in the region of 47,000 engine hours, (mainly 2 or 3 engines).

Set fire to a tsio 520 (loose fuel union)
Precautionary shut down a tsio 520. Dumped its oil due unfeathering accumulator line abrasion.
Sheared gearbox drive on a RR Dart
One catastrophic on a JT8. 2nd stage compressor blade seperation.
One precautionary on a JT8. Oil fiter clogging with bearing bit and pieces.

M

1500 piston hours- no failures, just left the application of carb heat a bit late a couple of times which resulted in some coughing and spluttering and also some coughing and spluttering from water going through the engine when in the tropics.
4000 PT6 hours- no failures, just one low oil pressure indication that reulted in operating at low power until home.
2000 CFM56 hours- no failures. no non-normals.

18,000 hours in 37 years. Piston singles to bizjets. No engine failures. (fingers crossed)

Maui
That second stage seperation wasn't on Engine 2 of a 727-200LR by chance was it ??

727.200 Eng #1. wrong coloured tail.

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Fly a twin.

Watch those new ones!
 

On my first flying job we had a PA32 with about 200 hours total time since new. It had flown the pacific on it's delivery flight.
The camshaft broke at 200 hours.

No failures to date although swotting up on my checklists.

Can anyone suggest a reason why you wouldn't switch off the electric fuel pump with a complete engine failure during t/o roll - regardless of in/sufficient runway available.

Done a bit over 20 in thirty years and had none as well. A fair bit a of radial time to PT6.