Air North Brasilia Crash in Darwin (Merged)

[JohnMcGhie]

Good god, I hope that isn't the real manual!

A lot of speculation on the operation of the Brasilia prop.

A few pages of the simplified operation can be found at Smart Cockpit. This is dumbed down for pilots so may not tell the whole story, - but I suspect there may be a little more to it than some here appreciate.

SmartCockpit - Airline training guides, Aviation, Operations, Safety

I struggled through a few pages of that. Is it just me, or is that incomprehensible gobbledy-gook? Well, no, it isn't just me: I am a Technical Writer by profession. I do stuff like that for a living. And that is attrocious: so bad it's dangerous.

The most fundamental requirement for technical writing is that it should be clear and unambiguous. That is neither.

I really hope that no poor pilot is trying to understand his aircraft by reading that! That material is dangerously bad.

If that is part of the real aircraft documentation, I would hope the ATSB could spare a couple of paragraphs in its report to make a finding on that document.