Single Engine Taxi
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Single Engine Taxi
Since when did you guys start doing this? I left Porter in 2011 so after that I assume. Was using Porter last weekend for work and I really thought the crew shut down #1 due to a warning after touch down or something lol...
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Re: Single Engine Taxi
How doe you stop a Q400 if the other engine quits? Many decades ago we looked at this with the -300 and at that time the concern was that in that (unlikely) event all you had left was to apply the park brake.
Re: Single Engine Taxi
The accumulators don't hold enough reserve pressure to activate the brakes?
Re: Single Engine Taxi
When you looked at it "many decades ago", it would not have been an approved procedure from Bombardier (or DeHavilland). Single engine taxi is now in the AFM for the Q400, and in the very highly unlikely even that the other engine quits, the parking brake will indeed stop the airplane. A more likely scenario is the standby hydraulic pump being accidentally turned off or failing, leaving again only the parking brake. So a good check of the hydraulic gauge prior to approaching the gate is a prudent SOP.sportingrifle wrote:How doe you stop a Q400 if the other engine quits? Many decades ago we looked at this with the -300 and at that time the concern was that in that (unlikely) event all you had left was to apply the park brake.