Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
So the certification of removal is done before the removal happens?
If yes, that’s commercial pressure perverting safety procedure, pure and simple.
It has been going for years, right in front of your eyes;
Steering By-Pass pin, shown to crew after engine start/pushback.......part of the certfied Transit Check for some airlines.
Final walk round, cargo doors, pax doors closed and locked......part of the certified Transit Check for some airlines. How do you certify for the door being closed if you need to open it to get off the aircraft post signing the Tech Log?
Pretty basic stuff maybe, but examples where practicalities over ride the process. Same could be said for the pitot covers. Leave them on for as long as possible prior to pushback to prevent wasp ingress with removal already certified in tech log or remove them and sign for the work leaving time for wasps to do what they do in the interluding 10-15 mins? I can exactly see how this happened in a process sense and adding in an Engineer dealing with multiple aircraft, distracted by another fault and some airlines' OTP obsession. Recognising the inbuilt issue and having a inbuilt protection is the issue, such as show covers with the by-pass pin as they are all joined together, and crew to stow warning placard which is placed next to the throttles once they have sighted the covers post pushback.
Blame is better to give than to receive!