r/nextfuckinglevel 26d ago

Engine fails during student pilot’s flight

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u/Daphne_Brown 26d ago edited 26d ago

Are you being serious?

Sputtering does seem like that’s possible. And there’s be zero chance of a restart once it’s dead.

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u/styckx 26d ago

Yes this has been around a while. Even somewhere (not on Reddit) the pilot admitting and talking about it

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u/Surrogard 26d ago

What happens in that case? How does the plane get back to an airfield? Do you just drive by with some cans of fuel and start from the field or does it have to be transported somehow?

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u/Francissaucisson 26d ago

I'm guessing you just get a special truck/trailer to the field to move it back to the airfield