Originally Posted by
EAP86
I wouldn't disagree by that measure of reliability but how many sorties were lost due to BITE failures and how much time was spent diagnosing and fixing component failures?
EAP
Fair point but you could say that about all the other technology on it. MECUs, PDUs, etc. etc. all of their time.
Wherever we could, CSAS BIT was carried out post sortie, so the loss rate would probably be lower than you'd think. I always thought it was overtested but getting the intervals stretched out was never considered