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yes it did. Fortunately no major injuries.
But this also brought up for me a question about electric motors, in cars, planes, whatever.
I notice that sometimes in phones for example that the loss of battery power is not linear.
A fully charged whatever, may take a good while to start dropping in capacity...then even out for a while from 80% down to some number, say 30%. But not always, sometimes from 30% or so, it seems to start going down a good deal more rapidly.
I asked a coworker that has a small electric car, and he confirmed that he experiences that with his car as well.
and they don’t seem to be able to adjust the readout for batteries, such that they could factor in the different rates of consumption, or don’t care to. He says on his car the calculated range changes for the worse as he gets lower. So at one point calculated he has 20 km range, but he can drive 5 km, and then see he now doesn’t have a range of 15, but instead now it is 8, etc.
Given that we are used to fuel burn rates that for a given setting will be predictable, so we can plan for required reserve fuel at destinations, time wise...
I am not sure, and maybe this will be rectified, but it seems that currently it is comforting that a pilot can with confidence in the numbers calculate remaining flight time, fuel consumption. But how much variance is there with purely electrical and batteries?
I'm not sure how it works with electric motors (I would not contradict someone with personal experience!) but with many modern electronic devices, they use so little power that they are far down the charge curve before you can tell any degradation. Case in point: wireless microphones. Two decades ago, a 9V powered wireless microphone would last 6ish hours, but you could hear the difference (subtly, but I was running sound and listening on headphones) with easily an hour before it quit. Now they will run 20+ hours on a AA 1.5V battery, but if you hear a difference, you might have 10 minutes, sometimes less.