Engines Health

[Apexpilot]

Hallo Captains

Just a short question about the health of my engines.

Is it possible that they are still in perfect shape and rated as excellent after 100h of hard work? Damage mode ist ON and yes, i am flying by the book but it seams a little strange.

Thanks for the help!

Regards
Denis

[CAPFlyer]

Yes. The early model R3350s, when not plagued by cooling issues in the B-29, regularly operated 1000 hours before overhauls. I believe Wright listed a 1500-hour TBO, but I'm not sure if any of the Constellation operators ever were able to get that reliably before the L-049 got replaced by the later versions with the improved R3350s (which had 2000+ hour TBOs).

[Scott - A2A]

Denis,

It sounds like you are a solid pilot.

Scott.

[Apexpilot]

Thanks for the kind replies.

It is gerat fun to see that my ATPL training payed of somehow

It is awesome to see that there is so much knowledge avaliable on this forum.

Best Regards
Denis

[Lufthansa 380]

With Accusim you treat them like real engines - don't pet the cat the wrong way, that's really it.

[kakarot133]

Mine changed from "Excellent" to "Good" around 190 hours, but for some reason changed back to "Excellent" around the 260 hour mark.

An older log, showing "Good" engines:


My latest, showing them changed back. These are the same engines, no overhauls have been done except on engine 4 which failed rather early in the career: