Airport anemometer system out of action
Another note in the St Helena Independent mentions that a NOTAM has been issued saying that the anemometer system is U/S. The newspaper says what the NOTAM does not, namely that the airport is out of action until it is fixed. The NOTAM quotes an end date of 10th July, which I assume allows time for spare parts to arrive on the RMS St Helena.
I am staggered by this. You'd have thought that careful consideration would have been made of all the "show stopping" vulnerabilities that exist and that adequate allowance would have been made for redundant systems or spare parts so that faulty equipment can be repaired in reasonably quick time.
I wonder what other systems don't have adequate spares?