Annex14
Howdy. The AD is the Gorilla in the living room. Eventually, and ironically, RR and EASA will have to merge reality with prior work. It won't go away, and the liability can never be diminished. Ever.
In the Broad view, time is running out on the program. Fewer and fewer of the principals are adhering to "Let's wait and see". Or, more laughably, "Let's wait for the final report". Any rush to Nirvana will be roundly criticized, but the patience of the entire Aviation landscape will get thin.
There is a reason for intensified scrutiny. There is a reason for the borescope. There is also, like white on rice, the need to strip and bare the insufficencies, which perforce will cost the community untold money. We are witnessing the underside of what is wrong with the too cozy relationships between the Authority and the Manufacturer/Operator.
I think there will be a "fix". The question is obviously, is there room for it inside the confines of the certificate?? The "Back in the Air, what a relief" has to do with a system that hadn't any part in the cascade of cause, the fingered "Stub Pipe", around which there is no AD. There is only an emergency directive. While the audience is fixed on OIL, the "modules" are switched. Presto.
Can this feint be pulled off?? Only if it is not a feint, but as RR and all would have it, merely a duff piece of metal tube.
Hiding in plain sight has gotten orders of magnitude more difficult than days of old. This is a good thing; all the artifacts, fossils and tricks are uncovered to enhance Safety. Disclosure is a very good thing, always. It is sadly predictable that keeping secrets and hiding is getting ever more difficult, bummer............
Last edited by bearfoil; 4th Jan 2011 at 18:54.