REFLECTOR: Pilots report cockpit power failures

[Mark Magee]

Hi Richard,
I love the Reflector, I learned something new.
So correct me if I'm wrong, a software parameter prevented the flightcrew
from getting what thrust the engines could produce despite the damage, for
the program over-rode the throttle position asked for and selected FLIGHT
IDLE to prevent further damage? This is the same fly-by-wire bad
programming that sent that Airbus into the trees on a low pass at the Paris
Air Show years ago.
That almost cooked Sully's goose.

Let me see if I can capture my thoughts on this;

*'If it ain't Boeing, I ain't Going!'*

I think that says it.

Mark

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Richard J. Gentil <
richard at naples-air-center.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> The difference is with Airbus, if the A320 systems detect damage to an
> engine, the system takes the engine and puts it in idle not to further
> damage the engine. Boeing does not do this.
>
> While the engines would develop anything close to full power with a B737
> they would have been able to get enough thrust to make it to Teterboro.
>
> If you listen to the CVR, Sully and Skiles spent most of their time to
> getting the engines out of idle before landing in the Hudson.
>
> Richard
>
> Sent from my iPhone 4 Classic
>
> On Aug 22, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Mark Magee <edjonesbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
> I didn't know Rolls or GE had developed a Goose-Proof engine. Or rather a
> Flock-O-Geese-Proof engine.
> The Frogs tried the 'Foie Gras' engine which was a proven failure.
> Funny enough, with the Foie Gras you were supposed to be able to eat the
> goose after it passed through the engine. The engine was to literally cook
> your goose...
> Those Frogs! Had it only worked!
>
> Mark Magee
> N34XL
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Richard J. Gentil <
> richard at naples-air-center.com> wrote:
>
>> Well if Sully had been flying a Boeing and not an Airbus, no one would
>> know his name.
>>
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