El miércoles, 29 de agosto de 2018, 23:46:35 (UTC-3), Charlie Quebec escribió:
In the last east issue of Gliding Australia there is an incident report shown below.
During the course of a cross country flight, the pilot elected to start the jet sustainer to self retrieve.
The engine started normally, and the pilot tracked for the home airflield The engine failed catastrophically
830ft. AGL and a safe outlanding was conducted.
Things that make you go hmmmm...



Everything will eventually fail, always.
Even the electric motor, that is almost fail proof, will in in time burn a phase or blow a bearing.
You have to check the statistics, not the accidents in absolute numbers.
Turbines are very "simple" and robust systems.
See if you find ratios like:
Accident/Hours; Start attempts/Starts made, Land outs/hours.