Service difficulty report · Control Panel · Doug MD11F

Difficulty date
September 7, 2014
Submitted
September 8, 2014
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N521FE
Make and model
Doug MD11F
Aircraft serial
48478
Aircraft time
73,480 hours, 12,384 cycles
Part
Control Panel
Part number
4059002903
Part serial
99080582
Condition
Malfunctioned
Location
Cockpit
Part time
21,878 hours, 5,802 cycles
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
A

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

AUTOPILOT NR 1 & 2, AUTO THROTTLES WOULD NOT ENGAGE. NO FLIGHT FAULTS LOGGED FOR THE FCC1 OR FCC2. CHECKING THE FCC1 & FCC2 PREVIOUS FAULTS. BOTH FCC SHOW LEG 1 NO FAULTS, OR FLY INTO IND. LEG 2 FAULTS WERE ELEV FAULT, WHICH EWR RESOLVED. THEN NEXT FAULT WAS LEG 16 WHICH WAS A NR 6 WHEEL SPEED XDUCER. NO REPEATING FAULTS. THE FCP WAS INSTALLED IN MARCH 2014 & APPEARS THAT THIS FCP MAY BE THE PROBLEM IAW FORMED THE LND TEST, RUDDER, ELEV, RUDDER & FCP TEST THRU THE FCC NR 1 & 2 WITH NO PROBLEMS. REPLACED THE FCP & TESTED IAW MM 22-00-4-5 TEST WAS NORMAL. PERFORMED THE AUTO FLIGHT TEST IAW MM 22-0 0-00-5-0 ON THE NR 1 & 2 FCC'S, TESTS WERE NORMAL WITH NO FAULTS. BOTH AUTOPILOTS & ATS OPERATED OK.

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