Hi everyone,
Airbus is currently developping the TOS (Take Off Securing) function that will normaly prevent that kind of mistake. These incidents occur more than mentionned in medias.
This function was first implemented on A380 as an option and will be basic on A350. The aim is to give alerts - depending on the situation, Master Caution (amber) or Master Warning (red) - providing crew awareness like 'ON TWY', 'NOT ON FMS RWY', 'FMS SPEEDS DISAGREE', 'T.O SPEEDS NOT INSERTED', ect..
Let's hope that these function, which normaly must never appears, will avoid any take off in bad conditions (wrong RWY, invalidated take off speeds, ect..). However, I am wondering how is it possible to make this mistake. I did not fly into each ARPT in the world but it seems to be hard to not make the difference between RWY & TWY as lights and markings are different.
Regards
Last edited by SylvainCap10; 27th Dec 2012 at 17:18.