NOLAND3;
Sometimes there are serious misconceptions about what we do including within the media obviously. We'll see by the next response from sandbank if a little patience and information helped - we may collectively assure him/her that the MEL process is a satisfactory dispatch tool. If we don't need the item, we depart and when/if it is needed, regardless of the MEL we set the park brake and order the item to be fixed, period. It's the captain's ship.