Originally Posted by
busdriver12
Don't know if I completely buy your good buddies story. If you accidentally shut down both engines, would it really take you 10 minutes to start up the APU and start up one engine? More like two minutes.
Might be an exaggeration but to put it in perspective, the 717 APU takes just under 3 minutes to get started and an additional 2 minutes until air is available. It then takes over 2 minutes to get the 1st engine cranked bringing us until 7 minutes to have the ability to taxi if we were to do the same thing. I know they aren't operating 717s but not everybody can just step on the brake and hit the auto start button with the FOB in their pocket
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