Questions tagged [engine-failure]
An engine failure occurs when one or more engines on an aircraft stop functioning normally. This is often assumed to mean a complete loss of power from the engine, but partial power loss and excess power are also engine failures.
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Angle of bank affects on descent rate
I’m attempting to do some maths regarding the ‘impossible turn’ (engine failure after takeoff, followed by a 180+ deg turn back to the field to land). I understand how to determine radius, rate of ...
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Does anyone know why the Horten Ho 229 V2 crashed?
On February 18, 1945 the German Horten Ho 229 crashed due to an engine failure and I was wondering if the failure was caused because of the planes irregular shape or some other external factor. I will ...
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How do you determine VMCG, if its yawing moment by the inoperative engine is only be corrected by the rudder?
The requirement of VMCG is:
VMCG, the minimum control speed on the ground, is the calibrated airspeed during the takeoff run at which, when the critical engine is suddenly made inoperative, it is ...
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Scared of flying in an Airbus A220
The A220 is exclusively powered by PW1500G geared turbofan engines, which have a history of reliability issues.
Multiple airlines grounded their entire A220 fleet amid engine concerns (A220 Engine ...
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How would a GE9X's react to ingesting a person?
Was wondering how a GE9X (or GE90/etc.) would fare after ingesting a person, at takeoff or climb thrust. (For a story.) Obviously the person is dead and the engine can safely be assumed to be a write ...
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What would happen if both engines of a twinjet cut out at or immediately after V1? [duplicate]
Disclaimer: Not a pilot or an aviation guy, just someone who's flown on planes before.
So, yeah. Assume A and B are the PIC and copilot, respectively, of a twin-jet plane (doesn't matter which one). B ...
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What does the "EMERG BATT switch" and the associated phrase "(if starting battery installed)" mean?
What does the "EMERG BATT switch" and the associated phrase "(if starting battery installed)" mean? I could not understand what the "EMERG BATT switch" and its associated ...
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On a Diamond DA-42, under what circumstances will the propeller auto feather?
I will be doing a multi-engine course in a 2006 Diamond DA-42 soon and I'm curious if this is true for the aircraft and under what circumstances the propeller would auto feather. For example, if the ...
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Can a helicopter autorotate from a hover?
If a hovering helicopter's engine fails, can the helicopter autorotate as it could if it were moving?
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Cessna 208B Caravan various emergencies
looking for help from some experienced Caravan pilots.
So for the 208B Caravan we have our emergency checklist,
which for engine failure tells us to power idle prop feather and fuel lever to idle and ...
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Why descend after a single engine failure in an Airbus?
The procedure says to descend to lrc ceiling. But, why do we need to descend?
The aircraft is still able to maintain speed even at higher altitudes,
at FL300, in FS2020, it was maintaining around 215-...
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Testing magnetos during engine failure
I'm a student pilot (PPL) and the C172 I fly has the following item in the emergency checklist for in-flight engine failures:
MAGNETOS...............TEST
My ...
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how is ITT peak temperature affected by altitude during an airstart?
another T-6 Texan II (turboprop aircraft) question. When reading the airstart prodedure in the engine failure during flight section of the manual, I found something that Id appreciate the ...
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How does the weight affect the altitude that can be reached by trading speed after a total engine failure?
I recently read in the manual for The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II (a turboprop aircraft) about engine failure during flight at different altitudes and the gains from pitching up after the engine failure ...
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How does detonation and pre-ignition affect EGT/CHT readings?
I've read that during engine detonation EGT decreases and CHT increases. In contrast, when pre-ignition occurs both EGT and CHT will rapidly increase.
Unfortunately, I can't find a good explanation ...
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