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I do wonder if the words should be further away from each other phonetically though - start … unstart seem close enough to be confused if the radio is noisy
by eismcc 4y ago
I do wonder if the words should be further away from each other phonetically though - start … unstart seem close enough to be confused if the radio is noisy
- jaywalk 4y agoNobody is going to be talking about an unstart over the radio in an emergency situation. It took 2-3 seconds between the unstart and the aircraft disintegrating.
- eismcc 4y agoI get that but it’s not my point. I’m wondering in general about word choice to minimize collisions
- hinkley 4y agoI suspect the pilots and ground crew save their energy to fight about the things they are likely to say over a radio and let the engineers do whatever they want with the rest. Unstart is a lot less evocative than “flameout” as used in the Top Gun movie. Flameout sounds like the plane is on fire. Especially if garbled. Meanwhile, if your righter pilot sounds like he said engine start while flying? That’s only gonna happen if the engine already shut down. So that’s only ambiguous until the pilot keeps talking, in which case you know he was able to restart the engine before losing consciousness, versus the end of that conversation.