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Old 10th Aug 2016, 17:40
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lederhosen
 
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If you are familiar with frequent and usually reliable posters then the direction pointed to by Fullwings, Harry the cod, Wizofoz and others looks convincing. Hot and high due to positive windshear and overreliance on automatics. Poorly executed go-around not helped by various elements of the system. The report will no doubt (eventually) fill in the gaps.

The system here includes hardware, software, manuals and procedures together with other intangibles such as company culture. I like the description Prof. John Kay attributes to Martin Taylor when describing how complex systems evolve. The palladian mansion envisaged by the original designers morphs into a gothic house of horror, with turrets and crazy paving. When wading through pages of operations manual changes (mostly trivial minutae) it is easy to lose sight of what is really important.
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