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FAA addresses dual-engine shutdown of A220 P&W engines
Following a dual-engine shutdown on an aircraft with Pratt & Whitney 1500G power plants – used exclusively for the Airbus A220 family – the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) to prevent the shutdown from happening again. (www.airguide.info) Plus d'info...wow. How about the software check if there is any airspeed too....
Software is never bug free but this is a design issue.
Software is never bug free but this is a design issue.
So how long are these planes going to be grounded until there fixed
147 engines? Who is running the mismatched set?
OOPS
And this over reliance on technology and not a pilot's skill will eventually lead to deaths in the future. In the not too distant future you will see a monkey in the cockpit trained to start the engines and shut them down after the plane does all of the taxiing and flying and landing on its own.