Aircraft
TP400 nears Fadec trials, certification
Engine consortium Europrop International (EPI) is now just 300 test hours away from certification of its 11,000-shp TP400 turboprop for the Airbus A400M mi

Engine consortium Europrop International (EPI) is now just 300 test hours away from certification of its 11,000-shp TP400 turboprop for the Airbus A400M military transport. According to technical director Karsten Muehlenfeld, the final software of the full authority digital engine control (Fadec) is to be delivered to the Toulouse iron bird late this month, allowing flight trials to at last begin. Problems with the Fadec have been at the heart of the serious delays suffered by the aircraft program.

The Fadec has to be civil certified, as has the rest of the engine. Therefore, exhaustive documentation is needed, which the previous release of the software failed to have. Muehlenfeld emphasized the program has 50 percent more input and output interactions than that of A380 engines.

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