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Old 7th May 2017, 11:04
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Uplinker
 
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Problem with that is TRE's (and Captains) are very reluctant to put minor faults in the book. Obviously they are making commercial considerations in the real aircraft, but this should not apply in a third party SIM.

Those bloody typists headsets are virtually unusable - they haven't even got windsheilds on the mics - but most TRE's are not interested in what they regard as minutiae - they are more concerned about whether their two charges have passed their LPC. If I piped up and said that the microphones are virtually unlistenable to, and the cockpit lighting is terrible: the TRE would probably say 'That is the least of your worries, Uplinker, now what about that raw data NDB approach of yours?'

This is seen on the line too - minor faults such as poor audio quality, blown bulbs, dirty cockpits, cold cockpits etc, have to be extensively lobbied to get even a mention of them in the tech log. Often they say they won't put them in but will tell the next crew to put them in. The next crew forget, or can't be bothered at 0200 when their shift finally ends.

So, no paper trail, therefore no 'evidence' and therefore no maintenance action.

Thing is; the less we give our engineers to fix, the less the company will see a need to keep engineers on duty, so the fewer engineers there will be and the fewer faults will get fixed. This will become a descending spiral, and result in really big delays when something goes wrong which prevents us from dispatching but there are no engineers on hand. Ditto SIM faults which never get fixed.
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