Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” What if the alternator goes kaput, the attitude indicator rolls over, or the vacuum pump takes its last breath?
As I considered this conundrum one evening, the movie Apollo 13 appeared on the screen. And contrary to legend, the best line in the 1995 film was not Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) saying, “Houston, we have a problem.” No, for my money, it was legendary mission controller Gene Krantz (played by another Hollywood great, Ed Harris) asking the NASA team, “What do we got on the spacecraft that’s good?”
That attitude, making the most of the systems that remain, is the key to dealing with in-flight emergencies in jet airliners, military jets, and especially our piston-powered ma-chines down here in GA land. The ability to quickly identify what has failed, what is still operating, and how long what remains will continue to give out reliable information is the key to being prepared for any emergency. However, the task is even harder for us piston jockeys because many of our legacy singles and twins have considerably less redundancy and systems integration.
Systems Integration
True systems integration debuted in the early 1980s with the arrival of the Boeing 757. The “Flying Pencil,” as it is often called, contained the first…
Source www.planeandpilotmag.com
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