Originally Posted by
daOldMan
Seems fishy that you would bust for exceeding the limitation by 2 seconds. I am guessing it had to do with you not recognizing a bad start. Wasn't there a pneumonic that they teach and a limitation? TEMS or something like that? It's been awhile, but don't you just remove the fuel and ignition and let it motor?
Here’s how it went. Regular start, starter indication on the advisory went out at 50 seconds. My hand goes off from the button to stop a starter. Sometime between my hand moving from the stop button and the other hand stopping the clock I get a caution. I forget the exact verbiage but it was something like air start valve open. I had never seen that in training. Saw hot/hung/no and starter remains on, advisory still on, starts.
As I had never done that I announced the caution and went to the qrh. I complete the qrh which has me hit the stop button and the caution extinguishes. The APD asks what is the clock at and I state 92 seconds.
Not sure that it matters. I had chosen to be PM for the first leg out. Everything went fine with that, kind of hard to mess that up. Only real thing that had happened on that was a hold and had to determine how much time we had available in holding before diverting.