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Originally Posted by Penguin
I'm not up on Aviation, but many years ago I was the product planning manager for a major aircraft engine manufacturer (which means GE, Pratt, or Rolls). I would have thought that they would have left that "feature" in the system and either made it into a manually activated option, or left it as automatic with an alarm/"pop the priority warning message to the display screen" operation.
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Ah.. Sorry, I didn't complete the "story," sorry..
Oh yes - the feature was left in, but you're right.. It was made MANUAL (have to press the button to turn it on) and they decided they wanted an a chime. If it happens to also catch fire in the process of failing, the regular fire alarm goes off too.
Sounds a little foolish, in a way, but it's the old "let's not panic anyone" thing, when such an event often occurs during the most stressful phases of flight (takeoff and landing).
I like that the BMW chimes for events. I know that whenever I hear that sound, something is amiss. Parking brake on, cold outside, low on fuel, going too fast, etc.
The Lexus wouldn't even chime when the low fuel light came on. You just had to notice it. I never ran out, but there were more than a few times that I easily could have had I not noticed it.