353 System Failure Decision Making and Choosing the Best Airport to Land
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4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Max talks about how to respond to system failures, including those not covered in the POH. The process starts with assessing the severity of the failure—whether it’s a minor inconvenience or a threat to safety. Pilots should determine if they can substitute other instruments or indicators for the failed system and assess if the issue could lead to cascading failures, such as an engine fire after a turbocharger malfunction.
Choosing the right place to land is also crucial. Not all failures require an immediate landing, so if time permits, pilots should consider airports with better repair facilities.
The episode compares the redundancy in the Cirrus SR22, with its dual alternators and batteries, to the Diamond DA40NG, which has less backup, making electrical failures more critical. The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding your aircraft's systems and being prepared for emergencies.
A real-life example of a failure involving engine sensors in a Cirrus highlights the importance of redundancy and system knowledge, underscoring the episode’s key takeaway: know your aircraft, understand potential failures, and always be prepared to act decisively in flight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, when you're flying and have a system failure, how do you determine whether to land immediately |
| 0:06.5 | or continue on for a while? And could that answer be different for the same failure in different |
| 0:11.8 | aircraft? And if you choose to divert to another airport, what factors should go into choosing |
| 0:18.1 | that airport? Today, we have an email from a listener who wrote in about |
| 0:22.1 | episode 349, in which I talked about my trip and an SR22 to Missouri, during which we lost all |
| 0:28.6 | of our engine instrumentation. And he was not at all happy with our decision to continue on to our |
| 0:34.1 | destination. And I'll talk about why some failures that could be serious in his |
| 0:38.5 | airplane, the Diamond D-A-40 NG, are not at all serious for the Cirrus SR-22 that we were flying. |
| 0:45.7 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk in general aviation. My name is |
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