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Old 18th Aug 2011, 17:50
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Certification (s)

Of course certification must keep up with increasing experience, whether for speed or pitch information.

Under the Regulations of sixty years ago any aircraft ( A330 ?) would be restricted to flights not exceeding 1000 nm over water or 1500nm overland. Longer flights required the carriage and use of a Flight Navigator, who would need a sextant and a means of checking the compass (Astrocompass ?) and a Drift sight. (Please don't suggest an astrodome on a pressurised aircraft - I think that someone lost their Navigator through one, then !)

There was a list published of some 30 odd UAS incidents which had not had MAJOR problems. Someone ought to know why. (NWA had ice crystals and were 25 miles away from a Cb.)

Historically many/ most aircraft accidents seem to have come from the convergence of several (often three) factors, each relatively minor or individually surmountable. Each factor, when indentified or even suspected ought to be remedied, so that THAT factor does not happen again.
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