Originally Posted by
tallpilot
Absolutely.
Is it an engine failure if the auto-relight works? I'm pretty impressed with this little engine if it can eat a bird, have a temporary power loss then get right back to business. Sully would have appreciated that.
Where exactly was the 'engine' strike? Sully's hit two large birds. One knocked out the VSV on one side. That engine kept relighting, accelerating....at which point it would stall because of the VSV's being broken, spin down, auto-relight and start the cycle all over again. The other bird took out a bunch of blades in the compressor section on the other engine. Engine could chug along at low idle (35%????), but had no chance of accelerating.