Roundtuit
It did, the information was very clear, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Dusktodawn
Good point, you would have had a very empty tank by that point. However, as the cross feed was open the aircraft was loosing fuel from both tanks so it is questionable if you would have noticed much. Still hard data is what you should be working from using control indications etc as a secondary input. Out of interest the crew could have looked at the control page and found the same information. Not sure about the 777 it is fly by wire after all but I assume it has a control display as well if the controls are not back driven!
arcniz
I understand where you are coming from (I spent 8 years in IT and system design) but really the information is there and the vast majority of crews would have landed in Lajes on one engine and we would not be having this conversation. I have only seen one crew make this error in the sim and they corrected their error before it was too late. The on board diagnostic maintenance system does allow you to check raw data from sensors and carries out BITE checks. Out of interest their engineers could have given them the codes required if they had asked.
Last edited by spy; 18th July 2004 at 12:20.