Posted on 04/20/2013 10:19:11 AM PDT by Fennie
I like that one.
It reminds me of another one involving engine failure.
You are flying at night. Dark night. Over rough terrain.
Engine quits.
What to do? What to do?
When you are down to about 400 ft., turn on your landing light.
If you don’t like what you see, turn it off.
I have never had any actual death threats from any of the many aircraft I have flown. I have had a few stern warnings though. Even a tsk, tsk, tsk on occassion. Thankfully, they generally happen on the ground.
RIP.
Thanks. Had not heard that one.
How many military officers does this make who are gone now? Anyone know?
I should have been more clear: That was an F-16 with a windmilling engine producing residue hydraulic pressure.
Lose an engine, meaning it stops, means you have NO hydraulic pressure and can’t dead-stick anything. If you have no RAT then you really are toast. NO cable and pulleys for modern jets.
(The A-10 has a “manual reversion” capability if it loses its triple-redundant hydraulic system. It is the only fighter to have that capability)
I couldn’t be more right.
I would rate that as great hanger talk.
Windmilling engine provides some hydraulic pressure. . .that is all. And the hydraulic pressure bleeds off rather quickly when you activate control inputs.
And absent hydraulic pressure, the control are not movable -—the air-pressure aligns it with the relative wind and the stick and rudder attached to hydraulic actuators are doing nothing because there is no hydraulic pressure to move them around.
Never flew the 104, so don’t know if it had pulleys. . .
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