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Given the location of the STAB TRIM wheel on a 737 a pilot would have to have had a previous career as a contortionist in Circe De Soliel to be able to keep their hands on the controls and stamp their size 101/2 on the trim wheel! If that is the solution then it is no wonder it took 2 years to get the problem fixed.
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Given the location of the STAB TRIM wheel on a 737 a pilot would have to have had a previous career as a contortionist in Circe De Soliel to be able to keep their hands on the controls and stamp their size 101/2 on the trim wheel! If that is the solution then it is no wonder it took 2 years to get the problem fixed.
The suggestion was it could be done with the feet, the trim wheel is in the same position as it has always been, I call bollocks on the STAB TRIM runaway foot method. Please upload a photo of your average 180cm 92kg airline pilot with their feet on a stab trim wheel while it is turning in speed trim mode.
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Any pilot who publicly criticises and condemns another pilot, about matters aviation, is many things. "Professional" is not one of them.
Any pilot who publicly attributes an aviation accident or incident to another pilot's error, alone, is many things. "Wise" is not one them.
Any pilot who publicly attributes an aviation accident or incident to another pilot's error, alone, is many things. "Wise" is not one them.
Is it therefore unwise and unprofessional to call out such stupidity and warn others or just use weasel words and tiptoe around the "real" issue, the Pilot's Error?
What are current statistics for Pilot Error, something on the order of 50% for airline accidents involve Human Error and at least 80% for all Aviation accidents? Face up to it. Being a professional means you face up to that fact, know you are not perfect and work your ass off to mitigate the risk factors and human error.
Or, don't. I don't care. Just hope I am not your passenger. I have enjoyed my career for 36 years, no accidents, no incidents, no violations, in the 47 countries I have operated and seven ATPLs.
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Yes, you can use your hand, and I have, but I was MERELY stating that putting your size 101/2 on the rubberized trim wheel is more effective. Unless you are wearing high heels when you are flying.
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Given the location of the STAB TRIM wheel on a 737 a pilot would have to have had a previous career as a contortionist in Circe De Soliel to be able to keep their hands on the controls and stamp their size 101/2 on the trim wheel! If that is the solution then it is no wonder it took 2 years to get the problem fixed.
Yes, you can use your hand, and I have, but I was MERELY stating that putting your size 101/2 on the rubberized trim wheel is more effective. Unless you are wearing high heels when you are flying.
PM is subject to the same ergonomic and physiological limitations as any other person on the flight deck. I also know that the PM is required to remain in the control seat during normal and non-normal operations. If you are required to stamp your feet on the stab trim you have to be:
a) out of the control seat and
b) flying in an aircraft that should never have been certified if that is what is required to maintain control
Clearly every regulatory agency should have contacted you first before grounding the aircraft and require Boeing to spend the last two year fixing, (according to you), a sound design that only hit the headlines because of incompetence.
a) out of the control seat and
b) flying in an aircraft that should never have been certified if that is what is required to maintain control
Clearly every regulatory agency should have contacted you first before grounding the aircraft and require Boeing to spend the last two year fixing, (according to you), a sound design that only hit the headlines because of incompetence.
Here’s a good video showing the forces required for control after a runaway Stab Trim and the difficulty of maintaining flight, even with two pilots exerting maximum effort to keep the aircraft level. Note the almost inability of the FO to trim nose up at 13:27. Also explained is the “roller coaster” technique which Boeing has removed from their manuals.
So, one fine day, flying GA, after lunch with the boys, a fellow Pilot from a competing Charter company dashed out to his aeroplane, rushed the preflight, tookoff, next thing I heard was a faltering engine, then a thud with a lot of dust. In his rush to preflight and takeoff, he forgot to check the fuel selector.
Is it therefore unwise and unprofessional to call out such stupidity and warn others or just use weasel words and tiptoe around the "real" issue, the Pilot's Error?
What are current statistics for Pilot Error, something on the order of 50% for airline accidents involve Human Error and at least 80% for all Aviation accidents? Face up to it. Being a professional means you face up to that fact, know you are not perfect and work your ass off to mitigate the risk factors and human error.
Or, don't. I don't care. Just hope I am not your passenger. I have enjoyed my career for 36 years, no accidents, no incidents, no violations, in the 47 countries I have operated and seven ATPLs.
Is it therefore unwise and unprofessional to call out such stupidity and warn others or just use weasel words and tiptoe around the "real" issue, the Pilot's Error?
What are current statistics for Pilot Error, something on the order of 50% for airline accidents involve Human Error and at least 80% for all Aviation accidents? Face up to it. Being a professional means you face up to that fact, know you are not perfect and work your ass off to mitigate the risk factors and human error.
Or, don't. I don't care. Just hope I am not your passenger. I have enjoyed my career for 36 years, no accidents, no incidents, no violations, in the 47 countries I have operated and seven ATPLs.
The "current statistics" are contributed to by unprofessional fools who think they are God's gift to aviation and throw their colleagues under the bus or watch them being run over.
You'll understand what I'm talking about, when one of the many mistakes you make turn out tails rather than heads.
Did you immediately go public and condemn your "fellow Pilot from a competing Charter company" for being the cause of the accident? If yes, you are neither professional nor wise.
The "current statistics" are contributed to by unprofessional fools who think they are God's gift to aviation and throw their colleagues under the bus or watch them being run over.
You'll understand what I'm talking about, when one of the many mistakes you make turn out tails rather than heads.
The "current statistics" are contributed to by unprofessional fools who think they are God's gift to aviation and throw their colleagues under the bus or watch them being run over.
You'll understand what I'm talking about, when one of the many mistakes you make turn out tails rather than heads.
So, one fine day, flying GA, after lunch with the boys, a fellow Pilot from a competing Charter company dashed out to his aeroplane, rushed the preflight, tookoff, next thing I heard was a faltering engine, then a thud with a lot of dust. In his rush to preflight and takeoff, he forgot to check the fuel selector.
Is it therefore unwise and unprofessional to call out such stupidity and warn others or just use weasel words and tiptoe around the "real" issue, the Pilot's Error?
What are current statistics for Pilot Error, something on the order of 50% for airline accidents involve Human Error and at least 80% for all Aviation accidents? Face up to it. Being a professional means you face up to that fact, know you are not perfect and work your ass off to mitigate the risk factors and human error.
Or, don't. I don't care. Just hope I am not your passenger. I have enjoyed my career for 36 years, no accidents, no incidents, no violations, in the 47 countries I have operated and seven ATPLs.
Is it therefore unwise and unprofessional to call out such stupidity and warn others or just use weasel words and tiptoe around the "real" issue, the Pilot's Error?
What are current statistics for Pilot Error, something on the order of 50% for airline accidents involve Human Error and at least 80% for all Aviation accidents? Face up to it. Being a professional means you face up to that fact, know you are not perfect and work your ass off to mitigate the risk factors and human error.
Or, don't. I don't care. Just hope I am not your passenger. I have enjoyed my career for 36 years, no accidents, no incidents, no violations, in the 47 countries I have operated and seven ATPLs.
After 5 years of writing accident and incident reports as a lead investigator I have never seen or produced a report that has Pilot error as the SOLE cause of an accident.
An aircraft should never be released to service with a known problem that can cascade very quickly to a loss of control. As a Check Captain I have seen a lot of mishandling in the Sim that often leads to repeats due to being out of prescribed limits, it never leads to crash or loss of control i.e it may be messy but all in all modern airliners are very forgiving. To say that a design flaw that leads to total loss of control when slightly mishandled is an accident purely from pilot error ignores ALL of the systemic failures that put those pilots in that position.
The PIC is the final defense but what Ollie is saying is that there can be a series of contributing factors. The airline, the manufacturer and the regulator all want the pilot to be last line of defense because they don't want to take responsibility for the design, operation or regulation that put the crew in the position where an accident resulted. No one is saying that the PIC is never responsible but let me reinforce the point that Ollie made, they are not the SOLE cause. As this discussion is about the MAX you can not find a better example of how the manufacturer and the regulator put the crew into a situation outside what they would normally expect for line operations. To simply say that the crew should have just applied an existing procedure and it would have been fine is deliberately ignoring the fact that the MAX has been grounded while Boeing and the FAA address a problem that should have never been put into production.
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The PIC is the final defense but what Ollie is saying is that there can be a series of contributing factors. The airline, the manufacturer and the regulator all want the pilot to be last line of defense because they don't want to take responsibility for the design, operation or regulation that put the crew in the position where an accident resulted. No one is saying that the PIC is never responsible but let me reinforce the point that Ollie made, they are not the SOLE cause. As this discussion is about the MAX you can not find a better example of how the manufacturer and the regulator put the crew into a situation outside what they would normally expect for line operations. To simply say that the crew should have just applied an existing procedure and it would have been fine is deliberately ignoring the fact that the MAX has been grounded while Boeing and the FAA address a problem that should not have never have been put into production.
I see where you are coming from LB however, in my experience, an increasing number of accident reports are replete with all manner of contributory and non-contributory factors which blur the landscape on what is, fundamentally, human error. Are all mitigating factors mitigating just because the investigator says so, or is this all just becoming a lawyers playground?
If a professional, independent, expert investigatory body, tasked with ascertaining the cause/s of an accident/incident (let's not get into that quagmire) and informed by more than one side of a story, comes to the conclusion that the cause is pilot error alone, so be it. That's its job.
Circumstances of death and damage always were, and always will be, a lawyers' playground.
PS: What OO and LL said.
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The PIC is the final defense but what Ollie is saying is that there can be a series of contributing factors. The airline, the manufacturer and the regulator all want the pilot to be last line of defense because they don't want to take responsibility for the design, operation or regulation that put the crew in the position where an accident resulted. No one is saying that the PIC is never responsible but let me reinforce the point that Ollie made, they are not the SOLE cause. As this discussion is about the MAX you can not find a better example of how the manufacturer and the regulator put the crew into a situation outside what they would normally expect for line operations. To simply say that the crew should have just applied an existing procedure and it would have been fine is deliberately ignoring the fact that the MAX has been grounded while Boeing and the FAA address a problem that should have never been put into production.
never seen or produced a report that has Pilot error as the SOLE cause of an accident
I think you will find in both of those reports there were contributing factors highlighted in training, currency, crm and sop compliance. I have never said pilots can’t be responsible for an accident, what I am saying is a pilot will never be SOLELY responsible. Even the German who flew the plane into a mountain shouldn’t have been there as he was known to have suicidal thoughts and ironically the fortified cockpit door introduced to enhance safety was also a contributing factor. There is not a better example of systemic design and certification failures leading to an accident than the MAX issues. To blame it SOLELY at feet of the pilots is to excuse gross negligence on the part of Boeing and the FAA.
Of course there should be accountability for what happened in the past. But my beef with that program was they continually kept fearmongering about an aircraft that essentially doesn't exist anymore. An unsuspecting viewer would come away with the impression that those problems haven't been addressed as the program barely spent any time discussing it. They were more interested in pushing the views of two unqualified emotional parents, sad as it is, than qualified engineers and pilots on the program. With all due respect how could an unqualified parent give their analysis of the modification done to the MAX? Of course they will be against it. It would have been good to ask that engineer to at least spend a minute or two going through the redesigned system to allay any fears.
Whoops, that would mean bringing educated rational discussion to a format that exists only to attract emotional and fearful viewers.
And it's already started. Comments on social media after that episode slamming Virgin for buying "that deadly aeroplane", "I'll never fly with them again..."
Whoops, that would mean bringing educated rational discussion to a format that exists only to attract emotional and fearful viewers.
And it's already started. Comments on social media after that episode slamming Virgin for buying "that deadly aeroplane", "I'll never fly with them again..."
Cheers Hoss58