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Old 8th Apr 2019, 08:38
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ecto1
 
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Fight the normalization of the abnormal

I see more and more posts selecting solutions which are strictly inside the coordinates of what we "know" it is possible. (EG: more training, software patch...) and not seriously mentioning much better / obvious ones.

I say: listen to people from other industries. What we sometimes believe impossible in terms of complexity / cost / time may not be so.

It's time to roll up our sleeves and produce good computer systems for planes. Systems in which sensor signals jumping straight up to off - the - scale - high are automatically rejected and have zero impact. For a start. Updating whichever rules as we go to keep a cheap but much safer solution.

We totally know how to do it right, it's just we forbid ourselves to do it by all sorts of rules and bureaucracy. Let's not accept another band aid.

Somebody wrote many pages ago he spent 30 years in the industry and failed to change substandard quality. Sorry I forgot who. But to him and everyone else, we have to keep fighting, as futile as it may be. It's simply what we have to do.
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