Originally Posted by Geehovah
I'll rephrase my remark
Have to correct you on the bodge tape. It was SOP to tape the master arm from Day 1 when we put the FGR2 on Q.
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I presume that must have been a local SOP in that case, certainly not the situation at Wattisham until after the jag incident. We did use A/c armed notices in the side of the cockpit prior to the tape instruction but obviously these were removed on Q as soon as the a/c was accepted. I remember well the look of amazement on our chief's face when he was told that in future master arms were to be taped as part of the load.
From the plumbers perspective the bodge tape was always regarded as a bit of flim flam used to excuse the jag incident, . It was never accepted that the lack of tape contributed to the incident, what else were we to believe when taping the MA was not included on an OTR?and I still find it incredible that the jocky "forgot" he was flying an armed A/C, after all it was a fairly major slip of the mind!