TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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I can understand throttling backthat makes perfect sense, but i always thought that if engines were actually to be turned off (fail) that was the time when the cockpit lit up like a nightclub, and people experienced an involuntary movement of poo from their bodies to their pants.
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(, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 14:53, 1 reply)
DependsIf you actually shut them down you may have problems restarting (although that's also part of the APU's job - it provides compressed air to spin up the turbine to get it started). At idle they're turned down to just the tiniest drip of fuel - for an Airbus A320 the engines use about as much fuel at idle as a car does at motorway speeds. Compare this with takeoff power where the engine will consume several *tonnes* of fuel just to get you up to takeoff speed...
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