Excuse me for interrupting this excellent dog fight.
It occurs to me, that 3 months from the news conference that introduced the 3rd BEA report on AF447 has more than elapsed. At that briefing
Jean-Paul Troadec introduced their new recommendations with the following (translated) comment:
First of all, a word or two about what it means to issue a recommendation. A recommendation is not a pious wish from the BEA. A recommendation is something that we make, of course, when we think that it is useful for safety but also that has a reasonable chance of being implemented. Because when we make a recommendation to an authority in general, it must answer us within three months and provide us with the follow up that it intends to give to this recommendation. So, this is something that commits us that also now commits the authority since the implementation of the new European regulation on accident investigations.
The underlined portion has my interest. What is the upshot of the recommendations? Has anyone seen anything?