Originally Posted by
F4E Mx
In thinking further one of the first things the crew would do in case of a fire in the cockpit would be to depressurize, so it wouldn't matter if the cockpit fire burned through the skin or not as far as pressurization is concerned.
The scenario which I suggested was that they were dealing with one problem (electrical) when another developed (decompressio/cockpit fire).
You are talking about a cool calm situation under control when dealing with only one problem at a time and not about a cascading multiple series of issues.
Useful consciousness at 35,000ft would be 30-60 seconds so you're telling us in a confusing cascading series of event it wouldn't matter cos the guys would just pull out the QRH and methodically work through solutions?