Slight thread drift but does anyone know what happened to another Hatfield 146 TP Peter Smith?
Peter was imparting great breadth and depth of knowledge to airlines operating the BAe146 certainly up to 2011, particularly the yearly tech refresher classroom days. It was always a pleasure to learn from such a knowledgeable yet unassuming master of the 146. A true gentleman.
Edited to add: another quirk of the 146 was in the avionics bay, looking up at the electromagnetic indicators (dolls eyes colloquially) after each flight to see what had over-temped or cut out during that flight.... They were back to front, all the left ones on the right and vice versa. I asked Peter if there was a good reason for that, as it appeared confusing. His answer: when the printed circuit board was laid up, the technician forgot that the writing and all component placement on the underside of the board needed to be 'reflected' to appear backwards on laying up, for it to appear correctly in the finished PCB. By the time it was discovered, it was deemed to expensive to re-order all the PCBs. Which is why all the indictors were ar$£ about face!