Way Point Moved
I have absolutely no connection at all with this very sad event, save having being a fellow aviator.
However my question would be,
If any particular loaded way point had been moved or changed, without the operating Crew being advised at the time, would this change not have been noticed, picked up & subsequently dealt with by the Crew, had they done a complete flight plan V INS check prior to departure?
When I operated long range flights, we (all on the flight deck) always checked, the coordinates, lat & long, track & distance, from the INS against the flight plan provided at briefing. Thus if anything had been changed & was unexpected, it would be immediately noticed, during the check.
No axe to grind at all people, but since this very sad incident & after all the various arguments, who was right / wrong etc, I still can't quite understand, why, if the Crew had done a INS V flight plan check prior to departure & compared the loaded INS waypoints against their flight plan, the anomaly was not picked up.
Last edited by kaikohe76; 13th Jun 2016 at 09:27.