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Comment by stetrain

2 days ago

There’s no good reason to do that.

There may be a good reason to cut fuel to one engine shortly after takeoff.

You could have a system that prevents both switches being thrown, and only in the specific window after takeoff, but you’ve also now added two additional things that can fail.

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