Originally Posted by
TempoTCu
What I don't understand is, how come CASA haven't already bypassed legislation and issued a directive to say that no RPT operation is to commence unless that acft has three packs installed (the third one being for an extra level of redundancy), and that no flight is to operate if any one of those three packs are unserviceable ('cos there is always the possibility of a double pack failure). After all, safety is number one.
Why limit it to A/C packs? MEL operation is all about operating with reduced redundancy.
So simply ban all MEL operation for Australian based operators. Simples.
Of course, within 12 months there would no longer be any Oz based operators, but what the heck...