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US 2017/0267366 A1Published application
Takeoff power management system and method for gas turbine engines
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsMatthew R. Feulner, Ronald S. Walther
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Abstract
A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a control unit to command the gas turbine engine to perform one of a rolling takeoff procedure and an unrestricted takeoff procedure. The control unit is configured command the gas turbine engine to perform the rolling takeoff procedure when information required to determine whether the unrestricted takeoff procedure can be performed is unavailable to the control unit.
Claims18
A gas turbine engine, comprising:
- a control unit to command the gas turbine engine to perform one of a rolling takeoff procedure and an unrestricted takeoff procedure, wherein the control unit is configured command the gas turbine engine to perform the rolling takeoff procedure when information required to determine whether the unrestricted takeoff procedure can be performed is unavailable to the control unit.
A method, comprising:
- initiating a rolling takeoff procedure when information required to determine whether an unrestricted takeoff procedure can be performed is unavailable to a control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.