Question fro ETOPS pilots
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Question fro ETOPS pilots
Have you ever experienced an engine out on ETOPS. If so, how did you feel, sanguine ( trained to deal), mildly concerned, quite concerned etc? If you haven't experienced, how do you think you would? Would it depemd on how far away you were or whether you thought that the other engiine could be subject to the same fault as with the BA (which fortunately was on finals)?
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Don't do etops and never had an engine failure either. However I do tramp up and down the tango routes all summer. We brief extensively what if's etc. What myself and all my colleagues feel is a bigger issue when you're miles away from land is a decompression. You have to hoof it down to 10000' where there's no radar coverage and no VHF comms with an air traffic controller. I've done engine failures in the cruise in the sim plenty of times, and in the sim it's a non event.
