Sun Aug 22, 2021 11:44 pm
#1866694
Andrew Sinclair wrote:I have had a couple of vac pump failures in IMC on 6-pack aircraft, in both cases the DI wandered first. and in both cases the aircraft was properly trimmed; the first time S&L and the second time in the climb. Makes life a lot easier if the aircraft is in trim!
Both occasions were no drama really. On the second occasion, I was OCAS and climbing towards CAS and so told the ATSU and they just came back with a clearance As it turned out I levelled off VMC and OCAS.
D
I had a vacuum pump failure whilst doing a procedural ILS at Calais. In IMC.
Had it happened earlier we would have been a statistic, fortunately we became VMC
Vacuum pump failures in IMC are a dire emergency, not so in VMC.