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Old 14th Aug 2012, 11:14
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Or you could ask yourself: Does it make sense?


(Complacency will kill us all)

Yes, This could save some, but some some will slip through.

It just reminds me of that triangle thingy, keep using up all the lower blocks and then just the top remaining one to be picked up and used, horrible.

It just seems a shame with so much data available (weight/trim/C of G/pwr/flaps/location/avail runway/accel/weather/temp/pressure/position of controls in the flight deck/state of a/c systems etc etc) that we can't have a nice safe attention getter when it's reqd.

Investigation: AO-2012-020 - Pre-flight planning event - Boeing 737-476, VH-TJL, Melbourne Airport, 22 November 2011

Thinking of this one above and the EK at MEL, just great examples of how crew can get out of the real loop.

Infact, from memory the EK crew had operated at weights between 160-360Tones and flight times between 2-12 hours and a variety of runway lenghts avail, so I can understand when they did not question when the engines spooled up and all the pointers and indicators were at low values, again from memory, it may have been a full de-rate T/O !!!

Last edited by Jetdriver; 15th Aug 2012 at 10:30.
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