Thomas, et al,
I agree about our legacy systems having single points of failure (SPOF);
but I would hope the new technology offered by FADEC would begin to
eliminate those SPOFs without introducing new ones. It appears to me that we
still have all of the legacy SPOFs and have now added new ones. Prior to
FADEC we didn't even have to have an electrical system to make an engine
run.

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Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas
"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
...
Jose,

However, it does seem to be a serious oversight
that the engines themselves can't supply their own juice.


That will become totally common with FADEC engines. It's just DIFFERENT
failure modes we have to be used to - our current old engines have
single failure points, too.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)