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> The Boeing Emergency Airworthiness Directive... One out of 313 active AD's [1], 12 with no effective dates that seems to signify a different class of AD's be
by yourapostasy 5y ago
> The Boeing Emergency Airworthiness Directive...
One out of 313 active AD's [1], 12 with no effective dates that seems to signify a different class of AD's because their issue dates are all over the map. I'm okay with 313 patches that I apply and the computer executes it from then onwards. Above a certain limit of number of AD's that should be memorized by pilots at all times, instead of entered into maintenance tracking systems for example, I'd like to hear from pilots why safety-wise that doesn't trigger a type re-certification.
I know that is expensive and time-consuming, but I certainly don't expect for example, my most senior ops team members to recall off the top of their heads more than a handful of critical procedures to execute on-the-spot without referring to the runbooks. Why does it appear that AD's are expecting pilots to apply a seemingly unbounded number of these "patches" like computers without re-training?
[1] https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/airworthiness_directives/search/?q=Boeing&makeModel=&type=Current&sort=effectiveDate&direction=desc&filter=737-8 https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/airworthiness_direc...
- WalterBright 5y agoYour link is to Airworthiness Directives. The one I linked to is an EMERGENCY Airworthiness Directive. This EMERGENCY AD was about an actual crash of the same airplane, and contained a 2 step procedure from recovering from the MCAS malfunction. It's a whole two steps: 1. trim back to normal with the electric trim switches 2. turn off the trim system Not only that, this is what they're supposed to know anyway. Recovering from stab trim runaway is supposed to be a memory item, meaning memorized. If you were a MAX pilot, wouldn't you pay attention to this?
- DangitBobby 5y agoPeople make mistakes, especially in high pressure situations.