Numbering Engines
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kev, have a look at the "Fuel Control" switches on this Boeing 777.
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I hate to say it but there are many manufacturers and operators even today that refuse to learn by past lessons that there should be no such thing as any lefts or rights in an aircraft.
Gulfstream being one of them with a L & R engine and a number 1 & 2 fire bottle, number 1 being on the right, starboard, no. 2 side of the aircraft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gulfstream being one of them with a L & R engine and a number 1 & 2 fire bottle, number 1 being on the right, starboard, no. 2 side of the aircraft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the BN2A mk3 Trislander the centre engine is number 2 as with the standard convention.
However when they first entered service we often refered to it as the third engine as it was additional to the two on the original Islander.
I don't remember it causing confusion though.
However when they first entered service we often refered to it as the third engine as it was additional to the two on the original Islander.
I don't remember it causing confusion though.
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Obviously not pretentious dispatchers like you that bimble around in my cockpit for too long and try making pathetic conversation when I don't have time to listen to it... or make your own little comments about the cockpit, or the plane, or the destination, or the route I'm flying....!!
