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Old 26th Nov 2009, 09:43
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I am interested in what they will say about the EGPWS 100' audio warning that failed to sound. At a recent conference I attended, Eurocopter Safety Department said this was not a factor in the accident - perhaps they are right in that the 100' warning is too late to recover, but surely to have a warning system designed to stop you falling into the sea, but which didn't work when they were falling into the sea, is at least worthy of consideration as a factor?

I don't like the way that the EC225 EGPWS can be completely dead (eg circuit breaker popped) and yet there is no CWP warning, and if you have not selected the MISD display (and why would you?) you just get a small red "TAWS" on the FND which you may not notice if flying "visually" at night. Bring back AVAD, all is forgiven!

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