"Bad Trouble shooting"
Thread is very long, am I correct in saying that a pilot reported defect was sorted out buy a normal use of an MEL item ?
If the above is correct, we need to be clear on how we go on from here.
Do we remove the MEL or expect engineers and pilots to understand every problem that can exist on an aircraft and judge every MEL item with their limited information.
I understand that many many aircraft attempt to T/O with various items/controls in the wrong config, most often picked up by config warn systems, on some occasions config did not operate or crew took off anyways, some are lucky and maintain flight, some are not.
May be this age old problem can be sorted out the same way logic has now been applied to engine rev, think they call it 3 lines of defence, think a 767 rev in flt and loss of aircraft drove that change.
Sorry for drift, Joetoms.