For those of you who fly commercial airlines, this video will give you solid answers on backup systems, as well as what happened in the Scully incident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9yz6Gd216o
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:25 AM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > American? > > So much for any connections. > > -D > > > On Sep 20, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Well the flight is now delayed an hour while they “secure” the APU. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Sep 20, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >> Very rare to lose both engines in flight. So rare as "not supposed to > happen in the service life of the aircraft" if it were to happen it would > be from something like contaminated fuel, a significant maintenance error, > or massive foreign object ingestion in both engines. If an engine flames > out at altitude I believe the windmilling from the airstream gives it > enough rotation for a relight, though I stand to be corrected. Aircraft can > generally depart with the APU inop so it is not critical for any > anticipated in-flight emergencies. > >> > >> > >>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > >>> Well they just rolled the air cart over and fired up the engines. > Without an APU one engine can start the other, but with both dead mid air > and no APU, I would only hope the airflow would be enough to spin them up. > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPhone > >>> > >>>>> On Sep 20, 2021, at 10:40 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I don't think they would need the starter to do an airstart if the > engine is spinning. > >>>> > >>>> I was on a flight once that had the BSOD on the control system, they > rebooted the whole airplane 3X (start, shutdown, start...) then put us off > to go find another airplane. > >>>> > >>>> --FT > >>>> > >>>>> On 9/20/21 11:34 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > >>>>> Of course they can start the engines with the ground APU but I > assume if they lost both engines in flight they would have no way to start > them. > >>>>> > >>>>> Sent from my iPhone > >>>>> > >>>>>>> On Sep 20, 2021, at 10:30 AM, Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> > wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Never had this happen before. We pushed back, tug unhooked and > plane lost all power, completely dead. No lights no AC no engines. I > immediately think they lost the APU. Sure enough pilot comes on and says we > lost the “backup” power to start the engines. Now being towed back to the > gate. Guess we will need a jumpstart. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________ > >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>>>> > >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>>>> > >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> --FT > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________ > >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>>> > >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>>> > >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________ > >>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>> > >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
