Airbus CHANGED THE ENGINE START SOP | What's NEW and WHY was it necessary? | Real Airbus Pilot

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[LBKG]

A huge thank you for teaching me everything I need to learn about aviation. You really dive deep into the systems and explain things well. I watch your videos every week. Have a safe flight next time you are working.

[wyntje]

I've been starting ENG 1 first ever since V1 simulations explained why his airline does it like this. Guess nothing changes, except now Airbus agrees for ground crew safety reasons.

[jeffg]

Been flying A320s for over 20 years and we have never started engine 2 first unless it's an external air start.

[goldenstateaviation]

As someone in the US I’ve been used to engine 1 being started first and used for single engine taxi. Didn’t realize people did it differently

[tomstravels]

Makes sense really. Partly because if you decided to do a single engine taxi and then accidentally started engine 2 first you’d presumably have to continue with 2 engines. And if you start engine 1 first you could maybe leave it a bit later to decide if to start engine 2 straight away or wait a bit. On a recent easyJet flight they started engine 1 first and only 2 minutes after starting taxiing they started engine 2

[HotelBravo-Tim]

Thanks a lot for informing us, Emanuel! We really appreciate it.

[jakestechiah]

Love vids like this bc I’ve never piloted anything (apart from a C172 once) IRL and just fly the sim for fun, but love to follow real world SOPs. Appreciate the info! Side note I never realized the brake accum. system was part of the backup; I just thought is was inline and part of the primary. 🙈

[DNModels]

Nearly 4 decades of ops and someone decided he miraculously came up with something smarter.

[yohannessulistyo]

V1 simulations discussed this in great detail and create a meme out of "which Airbus engine is started first"
I ride with a lot of Indonesian low cost carriers that fly A320s, Citilink (CTV), AirAsia Indonesia (AWQ), TransNusa (TNU), and Batik Air (BTK) - they really do 1 engine taxi out most of the time, and start with engine no.2. PTUs are barking all the way until we are near the holdshort point, making people chuckle. They don't do that with the A320neo, as they always start both engines after pushback.
The last time I flew old A320ceo was Thai's IAE-powered one, HS-TXC - from Bangkok VTBS to Hanoi VVNB they also do the one engine taxi-out, but for some reason they start with engine no. 1. This was back in May 2024. Of course the PTU barked all the way.

[chriscapt]

sounds like ultra lcc problem to me... this new sop probably won't be adopted by local airlines in our country since single engine taxi out is never used anyway as majority airports in our country don't have much complexity in the design so short taxi time and they're not that strict about the fuel savings. it's always number 2 first so there is almost zero chance the ground crew will make that kind of mistake here...

[Cat]

The exception is on the Neo if you use the Air Conditioning During Automatic Engine Start (FCOM-NOR-SUP-ENG) where Engine 2 still needs to be started first.

Of course the opportunities for this procedure only really exist on Neos in extremely high OAT, so it’s a minority of times.

[parklane]

hi there, just watched your Paro approach, thank you for pointing it out to me, I also saw the Kai Tak approach which was a bonus. Thanks again for the great content in your videos 👍

[Jannik_Stein]

Isn’t it more dangerous to ground staff now? Before they used to be cautious and now the rely on the pilots starting Eng1 and then comes either some airline that doesn’t adapt the SOP or some pilots that just do it like they did for the last 40 years

[sofloemir]

Delta has been starting engine 1. because of this reason. I think frontier too

[felipeturbayr]

thanks for the update !i will be adjusting my worflow in the sim :-)

[daver]

Interesting…I have a flight coming up on an Air Canada A321 so I’ll pay attention to see if they’ve switched to starting engine one first.

[dolf]

Thank you Emanuel for the new instructions . So interesting . 👍

[gwalker]

All my Airbus SOPs have "check cats are not being naughty" randomly inserted in them 😂. Joking aside thx for providing latest RL information.

[swiftbird]

Interesting analysis. Excellent change.

[martialandforbearance]

Why are the PFDs showing a slight pitch up at 7:37 but not at 1:40