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INTRODUCTION
01OCT08
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PMDG MD-11
Random Failures:
Many users are interested in the simulation of
random events during the course of a flight in order to practice proper
decision making skills and event handling techniques. PMDG has
provided a comprehensive random failures module that can simulate a
rate of failures for specific system categories or the entire airplane as a
whole, depending upon user preference.
Random failures can be assigned to limit themselves to a specific system
category, (Electric, Hydraulic, etc), or to a specific failure category
(Transient, Minor, Severe, etc) or they can be assigned to encompass any
of the 176 possible failure scenarios.
Activate Random Failures:
To activate random failures, set the “Sort by”
tab to read “Category” on the failures menu.
Next, select ALL from the menu list, and you will be given the opportunity
to set a random, global failure rate for your MD-11 simulation.
Determine the Failure Rate:
Random failures require that the user
select a “rate” at which failures will occur. For simplicity, this rate is
described as the number of events/10hours of airplane operation.
It should be noted that selecting 1/10 will not give you precisely one
failure in a ten hour period. The figure is a rolling average of failures /
flight time. As such, it is possible to have multiple successive failures in
close proximity to one another, but over an extended period, the rate of
