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"Peter Duniho" writes:
My comments are specifically targeted at genuine *failures*. That is, something broke. Ah...o.k. That *is* different and I can appreciate the distinction. There are plenty of reasons an engine might stop running, but not all of them are pertinent to a reliability analysis discussing failure rates and statistical chances of failure. You seem to keep trying to introduce irrelevent types of engine failures, while I try to make clear what it is I'm talking about. No, I was coming at it more from the pilot's (rather than the mechanic's) perspective. It's not "irrelevent" to a pilot when the engine makes an uncommanded stop in flight. I think it's common for pilots to call such stoppages "engine failures." I can see that there might be a better term for it. O.k., fuel exhaustion, air starvation, misfueling, ... are no longer causes of "engine failures". Now to come up with a name for what people mean when they talk about undesired engine stoppage... Thanks for sticking with me through this. --kyler |
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