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Originally Posted by Brenden S
This morning I received a phone call from Mr Ams asking about technical requirements for ETOPS and how hard it is to work on a APU. I said well it is a shonky scarebus you are flying so its any body's guess. At the time he already had a 2 hour delay as the Engineers had replaced a ignition cable on the APU and did not resolve the problem. I then told him to expect at least another 2 hour delay if not more due to needing to fix the fault and ETOPS requirements.
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Actually, The Airbus (A330 anyway) doesn't require the APU for ETOPS. The Emergency Generator is considered a source of power in the event of an Engine Generator failure. Only Boeing's require the APU for ETOPS.
How about that.