Originally Posted by
Chuck D
Are you joking? You’ve never heard an erroneous clacker, shaker, GPWS warning or something else that won’t stop in flight? That’s no so uncommon. I don’t know what their training was but am pretty sure most pilots can interpret an EICAS.
It was meant to be tongue in cheek to a degree. Yes EICAS is nice, but when something like a loud intermittent horn is going off, perhaps people should stop and look around to figure out why. The intermittent horn is either a takeoff configuration warning on the ground, or a cabin altitude warning in flight. If only those guys had a big round dial with differential pressure and cabin altitude right over their heads when the horn went off in flight to enable them to verify if the horn was legit or erroneous……. The 737 definitely isn’t the most advanced or automated plane out there, but it isn’t exactly that hard to manage either.