know, by maintenance programs, both electronically and by maintenance folks on the ground. so as a pilot you basically give a once-over, you eyeball the aircraft, you walk around it, but you re depending on the maintenance teams to do their regular maintenance? yeah, and a lot of this stuff in an engine is not visible, especially that size, anderson. you d have to open up the cells to do that. go ahead, david, you were saying you d have to open up the engine itself? yeah, you d have to open the cells to see that. as les was saying, you have the fire extinguisher system that s deployed from the front, but if there s an actual fire and flames that are causing damage to the cells, there is some fire extinguishing capabilities within the cell itself. but what les is talking about is to extinguish a known fire, that s what would have to be done there. but it is odd to me either way which system worked or didn t
things on the engine other than visually when one of the crew members will walk around the airplane. engines are continuously monitored all the time, you know, by maintenance programs, both electronically and by maintenance folks on the ground. so as a pilot you basically give a once-over, you eyeball the aircraft, you walk around it, but you re depending on the maintenance teams to do their regular maintenance? yeah, and a lot of this stuff in an engine is not visible, especially that size, anderson. you d have to open up the cells to do that. go ahead, david, you were saying you d have to open up the engine itself? yeah, you d have to open the cells to see that. as les was saying, you have the fire extinguisher system that s deployed from the front, but if there s an actual fire and flames that are causing damage to the cells, there is some fire extinguishing capabilities within the cell itself. but what les is talking about is to extinguish a known fire,