... have faced catastrophe after losing power from all four of its generators on its descent into Bangkok on Monday. A Qantas spokeswoman was unable to say what systems were affected on QF2 from London to Bangkok or for how long the aircraft lost power. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it had been told the power from the main generators was lost 15 minutes ...

...could have faced catastrophe after losing power from all four of its generators on its descent into Bangkok on Monday. A Qantas spokeswoman was unable to say what systems were affected on QF2 from London to Bangkok or for how long the aircraft lost power. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it had been told the power from the main generators was lost 15 minutes away...

...could have faced catastrophe after losing power from all four of its generators on its descent into Bangkok on Monday. A Qantas spokeswoman was unable to say what systems were affected on QF2 from London to Bangkok or for how long the aircraft lost power. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it had been told the power from the main generators was lost 15 minutes away...

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... propositions here into a convoluted exercise of mammoth and wordy proportions in order to insist that your fixated contrarian position is correct and any OP is wrong. We saw that in spades in the QF2 elec power loss thread where despite being told my answer to another's question was a "short answer", plus despite the questioner indicating that my short answer was all he needed to know ...

veritas wrote... Umm - give me an example of where it is cheaper to produce electricity using small gas turbine (or diesel) powered generators THAN produce/buy electricity from the grid? I haven't bothered to do the math - but I do know, having generated domestic power for a period (for myself), it was about 10x more expensive than when I eventually become connected to the ...

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:28:22 +0900, Paul Saccani <saccani@omen.net.au> wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:07:03 +1000, Paulo <ppauloo@bigpond.com> wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:09:23 +1100, Snapper <snapper_won@yahoo.com.au> wrote: What has me tossed is why some aircraft APUs cannot be started and run in-flight. After all, what's the point of having it? If it's sole purpose...