FADEC - Advantages

Advantages

  • Better fuel efficiency
  • Automatic engine protection against out-of-tolerance operations
  • Safer as the multiple channel FADEC computer provides redundancy in case of failure
  • Care-free engine handling, with guaranteed thrust settings
  • Ability to use single engine type for wide thrust requirements by just reprogramming the FADECs
  • Provides semi-automatic engine starting
  • Better systems integration with engine and aircraft systems
  • Can provide engine long-term health monitoring and diagnostics
  • Number of external and internal parameters used in the control processes increases by one order of magnitude
  • Reduces the number of parameters to be monitored by flight crews
  • Due to the high number of parameters monitored, the FADEC makes possible "Fault Tolerant Systems" (where a system can operate within required reliability and safety limitation with certain fault configurations)
  • Can support automatic aircraft and engine emergency responses (e.g. in case of aircraft stall, engines increase thrust automatically).

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