Originally Posted by
TURIN
Engineering line stores at main base.
TURIN, do you know if any consideration is given to the idea that a BA aircraft diverting into somewhere, somewhere
other than a scheduled destination, could then end up declared as AOG at said destination? Does BA engineering management assume that there will be pitot covers suitable for the particular BA aircraft type wherever it is AOG, given that it could be some time before a suitable qualified and licensed rectification team can get to the aircraft.fixit, and get it away again?
Or are all/most pitot heads on airliners these days of similar enough shape and size that a set of 'universal' pitot covers will do the trick? The idea does, of course, assume that the diversion airfield has
any spare pitot covers to protect an itinerant aircraft from marauding insects before it can fly again. Do these sort of things figure in BA's decision not to carry pitot covers on the aircraft? Just curious ......