Originally Posted by
Porker1
Newspaper article in the french press today:
"AF 447 : The pilots demand safety measures"
"A letter addressed to the boss of Air France by four pilot unions demands an improvement in the safety of the company."
I haven't the time to translate it all, but their key damands are:
- Re-organisation to create a new job of "Head of Flight Safety" reporting directly to the boss of AF;
- Pitot tube maintenance regime to be increased to every 6 months rather than every 18 months as is currently the case;
- Specific simulator sessions for pilots covering actions to take in the event of IAS failure.
Pretty clear what they think happened.....
Le Figaro - France : AF 447*: les pilotes exigent des mesures pour la sécurité
Originally Posted by
Hyperveloce
Wow. This means that currently, there are no specific training session involving IAS failures ? Is it specific to Air France ? Haven't we had Pitots problems, corrupted IAS and confusing behaviours of the automated systems for several decenies now ? and several incidents/accidents due to these corrupted airspeeds ?
Jeff
Maybe worth looking again at the Air Caraibe internal incident analysis from 2008:
http://www.eurocockpit.com/docs/ACA.pdf
Here's an extract of the final section, on pp 12 and 13. Although it's talking about checklist contradictions and difficulties, I guess it would, by extension, apply to sim. training.
AGB