bugg smasher,
One ought to be VERY circumspect in presuming just what the design team does and does not consider.
The design standards, as frozen for the particular design, determine the minimum set of requirements for which compliance must be shown.
There are many areas where additional work would be very nice to have ..... whether the design group addresses such matters is difficult to determine. Having been involved in such things, I can only say that one ought to be a little cautious on the line ......
This is one of the reasons that we ought to operate, to the maximum extent reasonably practicable, in sensibly strict compatibility with the manufacturer's AFM and crew manual data.
It may be a bit too late, at the time, to discover that you have pushed the boundaries a little too far ...........
Last edited by john_tullamarine; 6th August 2002 at 00:51.