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Old 30th Jul 2011, 21:45
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A computer generated list of possibles/not possibles would bring (one assumes) greater standardisation in the analysis of multiple failed MEL items and place less burden on captains.
Computers don't make decisions. They only regurgitate that which a computer programmer has told them to.

It seems to me, from my seat here in the peanut gallery, that to put the "decision" in the hands of a computer simply shifts the actual decision from the Captain, here and now, to a programmer, warm and comfy in his cubicle, and distant from the immediate circumstances by perhaps thousands of miles and years of time.
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