Originally Posted by
Empty Cruise
What surprises me on this thread is the amount of energy being spent on understanding the gust lock system - compared to the amount of energy spent on understanding and working out a solution to habitual non-compliance...
Guilty as charged. I spent time looking at the FCOM and schematics and then pronounced it unlikely that the gust lock system was responsible.
The complacent and disinterested performance by the flight crew should have been shocking, but it increasingly appears such behavior happens far more often than we are willing to acknowledge.