Originally Posted by
safetypee
Stab, et al, revise the mind set.
At the instance of alerting there are no ‘false’ warnings - you don't know.
A amber alert, prepare, adjust, act; a red warning - react TOGA, ‘airspeed and upwardness’.
‘False’ is a label after the event. Describing a system or location as ‘false’ before a situation is encountered is an indication of a system weakness. The system component of responsibility for a safe outcome is moved from ‘the system’ (manufacture) to the pilot. Pilots are expected to mitigate a deficient system, a system which was originally intended to aid the pilot. (review the aircraft manufacture or vendors philosophy, cf MAX)
Beware what is believed, how situations are framed, and by whom.
'it's the hope that kills you' ...
I’m sorry but I expect the pilots to have divergent thinking and not to behave like a computer.
As per the bulletin yes, there are false warnings. I don’t say that, Boeing and Honeywell (the aircraft and radar manufacturers) say so.
In the situation described by the colleague, if the PWS is telling you that you have to go around and is a system error that will actually put you into a real wind shear, I would like to think you will take at least a few seconds to assess and decide before pressing a button that has unpredictable outcome.
I think that you should apply what you said to your self, as you seem to have too much confidence in the system “technical and non-technical” as a whole.