Hi Flyinheavy,
Originally Posted by Flyinheavy
How do you spell alerteness? During 11 hours?
point 1.
Originally Posted by Flyinheavy
If one imagine the situation: crossing the ITC possibly concentrated not to hit one of the bigger red things on the screen, when all of a sudden a lot of chimes alerts and so on went off...
point 2.
Can't you see a paradoxe here between 1 & 2?
No PF is flying an 11 hours leg. What is he supposed to do, then at cruise, at night, in weather avoidance mode, with AP and ATHR, beside monitoring his flight intruments?
What about some task sharing for this radar tilting and cb avoidance? are you flying alone, sir?
IMC:
Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is an aviation flight category that describes weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to instruments...
Doesn't it sound more than adequate for ITC crossings? or maybe are you suggesting me that it would take them 11 hours to cross it? Beside, they were in the first third of the flight (3 hours+) and the PF has already been relieved.
"when all of a sudden a lot of chimes alerts and so on went off."
Here is your single and very valid point: surprise, noise, stress... bad documentation, bad "crisis" ergonomy, bad training as not realisticaly or specifically adressed.... we'll see.
Experience return: I'm pretty sure, after AF447, that the general situation awareness has steeply increased for all the crews flying in similar conditions, whaterver their company or aircraft model.
do you think that all the people living in Washington DC. are potential lobyists for Obama administration?