Just wanted to let the population know...
The mighty TH-57 is prone to a flameout every once in a while...
It happened the other day and thank god it was on a 90 auto...IP took it to a full, no harm, no foul. This was 1.3 hrs into the X (FAM 5, C4101) and the student had already done EPs through the channel. The IP commented that many of the simulated Engine Failures earlier in the day in the channel weren't flown very well (kinda to be expected on a FAM 5 I guess...) and would have resulted in missing the field had the engine actually quit...
Just makes you think...as an IP, I'd rather not find out if I can restart it from 400' with 2000'/min rate of descent...do every auto as if it were the real thing and hit the field.
~D
The mighty TH-57 is prone to a flameout every once in a while...
It happened the other day and thank god it was on a 90 auto...IP took it to a full, no harm, no foul. This was 1.3 hrs into the X (FAM 5, C4101) and the student had already done EPs through the channel. The IP commented that many of the simulated Engine Failures earlier in the day in the channel weren't flown very well (kinda to be expected on a FAM 5 I guess...) and would have resulted in missing the field had the engine actually quit...
Just makes you think...as an IP, I'd rather not find out if I can restart it from 400' with 2000'/min rate of descent...do every auto as if it were the real thing and hit the field.
~D
