ft - good to hear that ATC are taking HF issues so seriously. Unfortunately commercial aviation is a 'system' of many parts that must all work in harmony to achieve accident free operation. Any system is only as good as its weakest point and I am of the opinion that there are many such weak points re. human reliability in engineering, flight operations and ground operations. The Singapore 747 'wrong runway' crash and the recent SAS MD80 crash at Milan due to a runway incursion show just how vulnerable to human error the aviation system still is. I believe Bus 429 is right to imply that there is lots of talk about HF in these disciplines but precious little action. Airlines will not budge unless forced to by JAA/CAA. The first step would be to insist on all airline Chief Executives attending a two-day FAA/JAA/CAA backed conference on human factors to frighten the cr@p out of them. Then we might see a little more urgency in this area.
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