Originally Posted by
captive apple
There is no valid reason to be able to draw a system. Nice try. When that was required people only really knew it for the month around the PC then dumped it as they flew the line for the next five months anyway.
Your entire library of manuals at home is now always with you in the cockpit to be factually referenced if you have a situation out on the line. This is progress.
Disagree vehemently. When "it" hits the fan is not the time to be looking up in an EFB how a system is laid out and operates. That's the time to be running the appropriate checklists, which BTW are designed to be run by somebody that understands the system. Not every event will have a checklist or memory item, and many events will be such that you need your system knowledge to not make things worse. If you can't be bothered to understand the systems on the ONLY type plane you are being paid to fly hundreds of passengers per day, then you have no business in the front end of the jet.
So on the E145, HYD SYS 1 FAIL with a L ENG FIRE EICAS pops on short final going into LGA, or even Key West... what about at 31L at JFK, any difference?
Are you landing or going around?
What systems are or aren't going to be available to you?
Do you really have time to look up the stuff on your EFB like you said?