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FIRST AND MAYBE MY LAST FLIGHT! Posted by Ian Fischer
After being checked out as a B707 Captain by a Qantas Check Captain, my inaugural "solo" flight in command was from Kagoshima to Port Moresby. Kagoshima had an altitude of about 1,000 feet and the Pratt and Whitney engines of the 707 had the potential to over boost during take off at high take off weights. This was indicated by N1 readings that the Flight Engineer was responsible for controlling during the take off.
Determined to show "I was the right stuff", we launched down the runway, awash with fuel, and after what I thought was a truly credible departure I was somewhat shattered to hear the F/E call "lost four engines". Acutely aware that we were still powering along I assumed he had meant Number 4 engine - still bad enough - but no, he said "how does it feel to have lost all four engines?
I mean, this was pretty serious stuff and with visions of an overweight glide approach into the ocean flashing across my brain, I croaked "wadda ya mean, all four engines?
He said "YOU over boosted them all on take off. Blew all the maximum N1 figures. The engines are stuffed and will have to pulled and replaced in Moresby!"
OMG! How would I tell my young wife that I was had it, washed up, finished, no more pay check! Worse still I had visions of my 707 sitting forlornly on the POM tarmac missing all it's donks and just pipes and cables hanging off the wings! And of course I would be in Flight Superintendant Dave Campbell's office collecting my termination ticket back to Brisbane!!
With the magnificent old P & W's still doing their thing on the wings and a distinct spell of urine and faeces in the cockpit (mine) we continued to POM with most of my time working out how my finances were going to be seriously jeopardized in about six hours time.
I recall making a feeble point enroute that the F/I was monitoring the throttle positions and should have pulled them back enough to halt the over boost situation - "Nah, you're the Skipper mate! Problem bilong yu!
Half way home, we passed a Qantas B707 enroute to Tokyo and - as you did in those days - we had a chat to them on 121.5. The engineer was a brilliant old guy called Fred Crofts who had done much of the conversion training on our own flight engineers. Somewhat emotionally I recited the incident to him ex Kagoshima, wished him well, said that I was enroute to a life back in General Aviation etc. etc. and so sorry for wrecking his old aircraft!
Fred said "Ah, no worry. Qantas "modded" all those engines about a year ago to handle the over boost problem. You were still BELOW the max limits!!!"
Yahoo! I was saved! Much joy and celebrations in the cockpit!
I knew it all along anyway!!
After being checked out as a B707 Captain by a Qantas Check Captain, my inaugural "solo" flight in command was from Kagoshima to Port Moresby. Kagoshima had an altitude of about 1,000 feet and the Pratt and Whitney engines of the 707 had the potential to over boost during take off at high take off weights. This was indicated by N1 readings that the Flight Engineer was responsible for controlling during the take off.
Determined to show "I was the right stuff", we launched down the runway, awash with fuel, and after what I thought was a truly credible departure I was somewhat shattered to hear the F/E call "lost four engines". Acutely aware that we were still powering along I assumed he had meant Number 4 engine - still bad enough - but no, he said "how does it feel to have lost all four engines?
I mean, this was pretty serious stuff and with visions of an overweight glide approach into the ocean flashing across my brain, I croaked "wadda ya mean, all four engines?
He said "YOU over boosted them all on take off. Blew all the maximum N1 figures. The engines are stuffed and will have to pulled and replaced in Moresby!"
OMG! How would I tell my young wife that I was had it, washed up, finished, no more pay check! Worse still I had visions of my 707 sitting forlornly on the POM tarmac missing all it's donks and just pipes and cables hanging off the wings! And of course I would be in Flight Superintendant Dave Campbell's office collecting my termination ticket back to Brisbane!!
With the magnificent old P & W's still doing their thing on the wings and a distinct spell of urine and faeces in the cockpit (mine) we continued to POM with most of my time working out how my finances were going to be seriously jeopardized in about six hours time.
I recall making a feeble point enroute that the F/I was monitoring the throttle positions and should have pulled them back enough to halt the over boost situation - "Nah, you're the Skipper mate! Problem bilong yu!
Half way home, we passed a Qantas B707 enroute to Tokyo and - as you did in those days - we had a chat to them on 121.5. The engineer was a brilliant old guy called Fred Crofts who had done much of the conversion training on our own flight engineers. Somewhat emotionally I recited the incident to him ex Kagoshima, wished him well, said that I was enroute to a life back in General Aviation etc. etc. and so sorry for wrecking his old aircraft!
Fred said "Ah, no worry. Qantas "modded" all those engines about a year ago to handle the over boost problem. You were still BELOW the max limits!!!"
Yahoo! I was saved! Much joy and celebrations in the cockpit!
I knew it all along anyway!!
