Service difficulty report · Control Unit · Airbus A300F4605R

Difficulty date
October 24, 2017
Submitted
October 27, 2017
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N653FE
Make and model
Airbus A300F4605R
Aircraft serial
736
Aircraft time
32,573 hours, 17,276 cycles
Engine
Ge CF680
Part
Control Unit
Part number
K157ABM6
Part serial
76
Condition
Inoperative
Location
Flight
Part time
9,016 hours, 2,230 cycles
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
D

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

What was found

AT ENGINE START, ATS SYSTEM ADVANCED UNCOMMANDED AT THE TIME OF A NR 2 ENGINE ROLLBACK. N2 ATTAINED APPROXIMATELY 87% BEFORE THROTTLES WERE MANUALLY RETARDED. REMOVED AND REPLACED FCU IAW 22-15-XX PERFORMED AFS/LANDS TEST IAW 22-00-XX ,22-40-XX, ALL TESTS PASSED WITHOUT FURTHER OCCURRENCES, REMOVED AND REPLACED SDAC IAW 31-55-XX, ECAM BITE TEST SHOWED SDAC FAULT. SDAC TEST CHECKED GOOD. REMOVED AND REPLACED THRUST CONTROL COMPUTER IAW 22-36-34-04-01 PERFORMED AFS TEST REF 20-40-00-5 AND ALL PASSED WITH NO FURTHER OCCURRENCES, PLACED ACFT COCKPIT CONFIGURATION TO THAT OF FLIGHT CREW PRIOR TO ENG START, PER FLIGHT CREW AUTOTHROTTLE WAS ARMED, RAN NR 2 ENG REF A300 JRH NO FAULTS OCCURRED DURING START, NR 2 ENG RESPONDED NORMALLY, WITH NR 2 ENGINE ROLL BACK AFTER START, PROCEEDED WITH NR 1 ENGINE START TO MIMIC FLIGHT CREW ACTIONS. NR 1 ENG STARTED NORMALLY AND NR 2 ENGINE REMAINED IN GROUND IDLE CONFIGURATION. CYCLED ATS SWITCH TO ARM AND DISARM SEVERAL TIMES NON COMMANDED RESPONSES OCCURRED, NR 1 AND NR 2 ENG SHUTDOWN WAS NORMAL. AFS TESTED GOOD REF 20-40-00-5. ACFT OK TO CONTINUE.

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