Is smoke a bad sign outside the plane?
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While … funny procedure , … but wouldn’t be enough to shutdown fuel master and power switch , maybe activate fire supression at least for apu … but most important… run…
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Unless it’s the F-4. Then you have to decide if the thick black smoke trailing behind it is an engine fire or just business as usual.
Was going to say same thing for Mig-29.
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“lead, you’re on fire”
What if your the one that caused the fire?
(For example: Going full afterburner into lead after you forgot that a certain keybind is not tms up but throttle up) -
What if your the one that caused the fire?
(For example: Going full afterburner into lead after you forgot that a certain keybind is not tms up but throttle up)We may not feel the G forces, but we sim pilots have our own challenges don’t we…
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While … funny procedure , … but wouldn’t be enough to shutdown fuel master and power switch , maybe activate fire supression at least for apu … but most important… run…
All depends on where the fire is, and how big it is. In the case I cited shutting off the fuel master and activating the Fire Suppression (in particular) would have only caused more damage to the airplane.
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fighter jets are all “non-smoking” so if you see something… say something!
“lead, you’re on fire”
Reminds me of another one I heard from another Hornet jock while flying on exchange with some Brits - Wing: “I say old boy, have you got a Fire light?” Lead: “Negative”. Wing: “You might want to have Maintenance look into that after you land”.
Turned out Lead actually was on fire!
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You have me thinking now. Where is the Fire Suppression system found?
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In a Hornet it’s in the belly of the aircraft and along the tops of the engine bays…
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I thought it was an actual control switch in the cockpit itself. Once you cut off the fuel flow I thought there was another switch to activate it from the cockpit. Clearly it’s an automatic system then.
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Yes, it is a switch (or two) in the cockpit - however, the actual Fire Suppression system addresses the engine bays.
In the situation I mentioned with the Display fire in the cockpit, activating the Fire Suppression system would have done nothing at all to address that fire. In fact, I’m not aware of any fighter size jet that has a Fire Suppression system in/for the cockpit.