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Old 14th Mar 2019, 13:10
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Originally Posted by Ian W
These were discussed before - they are not MCAS as they occurred with autopilot ON, A previous poster pointed out that this change of level happens on NG as well not only 'this aircraft' and is due to pressure setting mismatch.

The purpose of ASRS is to highlight issues that need attention without come back on crews that may have made errors. A common error (and pressure setting problems are VERY common around 2 a day reported) indicates that attention is needed in one or more areas. Unfortunately, journalists are not capable of reading these reports and understanding what is being reported indeed they do NOT want to understand they want things to be as inflammatory as possible so readers click on their headlines. This is not really useful to the industry.
Ian I assume you read all of the narratives.

A few quick points from memory
Pilots not being able to usual scan and see what they are looking for
Pilots not familiar with new displays
Pilots not Knowing what the "Maint" msg means and unable to find it in pilots notes
Pilots not knowing what a particular switch labelled SEL was for.

That is abysmal conversion training (classroom and sim) , abysmal documentation and DANGEROUS


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