Turkish airliner crashes at Schiphol

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Sciolistes

In your post above

The documentation and training available to the 737 pilots was sufficient as it clearly identified the A/T as unusable for the phase of flight

are you implying that:

1. If LH Rad Alt is Inop then ATHR should be disabled as per MEL (as BOAC posted)
2. Because this is in the MEL, then it should have been clear (?) / known (?) to the crew that the LH Rad Alt going offline would cause ATHR issues?

I might have missed your point, but if it is as above, I would tend to disagree, on the following lines:

1. No "knowledge" of the MEL is required IMHO. Just "how to use it" when appropriate...
2. There is no requirement to conslt the MEL after dispatch in the event of a failure... Might be good practice if there's lots of time, but clearly N/A here.
3. My experience (recently Airbus) is that some MEL requirements are not "logical", even when the remaining FCOMs are consulted... and hinting (as here) to areas someone / somewhere has decided crews do not need to know (a line has to be drawn somewhere)

NoD