Tucumseh,
Always enjoy reading your posts.
I believe the design and systems engineers responsible for the MRA4 air vehicle systems returned their salaries each month to safeguard their amateur status!
Amongst other 'system interoperability" issues; Imagine forgetting about PFCUs requirements when initially focusing on the mission system requirements and then wondering why not a lot worked properly with aircraft stability/controllability once remembered? Oh and then trying to introduce obsolete MR2 systems to mitigate these issues... brilliant.
But, having little or no Systems Safety Assessment training (thus oversight) within the group responsible for managing the project is just unforgivable and crass.
Thank goodness it was cancelled; for the sake of the crews.
(I have my 2 Sep memory chip in...)
Last edited by Avtur; 4th Sep 2013 at 02:07.