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Old 3rd July 2011 | 14:36
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Safety Concerns
 
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I hate to disappoint you but the sales talk about a self diagnosing aircraft just doesn't hold up. Very basically now just for pilots:

you have a wire that goes from A to B. Along the way the wire connects to components within a system. Quite often when 2 components attached to the wire lose contact with each other a fault message will be sent.

the message will name the 2 components that are unable to communicate and quite often the message will add wrg: (wiring).

This is not a statement of a definate wiring fault just a statement that a very basic fault detection system can't work out who is at fault
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