Yesterday I posted the following on the thread concerning the pilot who was recently prosecuted by the CAA for running out of fuel:
Has anybody read the book "The Naked Pilot"? It describes various airline accidents, many of them wellknown, all caused by HUMAN ERROR. The pilots concerned were experienced, well trained, and the errors shouldn't have happened...but they did. Mistakes DO happen. No-one is perfect all the time. This sort of thing happens time and time again...and just once is too often.
So, let's leave this case out of it for a minute, and talk generally. WHY, in this day and age, do we have unreliable fuel gauges? WHY, if the R22, and others, can have reliable gauges and also a low fuel warning light, can't other aircraft? WHY do we continue with this ridiculous situation of using THREE different units for fuel? WHY don't we make the system, if not completely human-error-proof, at least more so, since whether forgiveable or not, these accidents DO happen?
Condemning and prosecuting is easy. Why aren't we looking at the real issues?
It was suggested I post it as a new thread, as a topic for discussion. So...over to you....