Originally Posted by
Lyman
You mention Certs as though they are culpable in and of themselves for the Thales failures.
In a way, yes.
UAS occurred on numerous occasions prior to AF447,yet nothing was done by the certifying authorities to update/revise the standards.
As an engineer, no, I have never had to certify pitot probes... it wasn't my field.
But I had to do EMI/EMC certification, again against
existng standards. If anything looked marginal, or dodgy, we looked into it, and solved it... or accepted it, if it did meet the standards. We were not there to rewrite the standards!
Since no requirement existed for surpassing the certs, (Goodrich, but arguably), Thales gets a pass? They were id'ed as problematic, but they met cert, so they can remain until the next fatal?
Nope, and your argument is feeble.
UAS (and inadequate standards) was recognised as being a
problem, and the certifying authorities should have dealt with revising the standards far earlier, not letting the problem fester until a crash occurred.
Poor position, find another.
Oh come. Some of your 'positions' are far poorer. Let's not go there.......
CJ