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What is the general principle for responding to an in-flight engine fire?

Choices

  • ✓ Cut off the fuel supply to starve the fire and land as soon as possiblecorrect

    Removing fuel starves the fire; the airplane is landed immediately.

  • Add fuel and enrich the mixture to cool the engine

    Adding fuel feeds the fire.

  • Open the cabin heat fully to vent the flames

    Cabin heat can admit smoke; it is shut off, not opened.

  • Continue to the planned destination at cruise power

    A fire demands an immediate landing, not continuing the flight.

Why

An engine fire is fought by cutting off fuel — mixture to idle cutoff, fuel selector and pump off — shutting cabin heat, establishing a glide, and landing as soon as possible per the checklist.

FAA source: Airplane Flying Handbook / engine fire in flightbrowse the reference library →

This is taught in Fire, Smoke and Electrical Failures — study the lessons free, then practice with grading and mastery tracking.

Original study question written for this course — representative of FAA knowledge-test topics, not an actual current FAA exam question.

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