question for the above post, if the heater in the encoder is the cuase of an erroneous reading, thats a problem on the "other" plane from the Original Poster...so in this case from the OP, we would want the investigation to look at their EQ, not your own. OP already said no further investigation will happen...was that his company saying that, or did the FAA say no further investigation. I agree that this is a REAL issue for this incident, and it needs to be resolved or somewhere down the road a new rule will be written in BLOOD after the fact.

To the OP, you should push this issue to your chief pilot directly, explain the situation and the subsequent rulings and stress your concern with a possible future issue, that issue being that it may not be your companies EQ thats fubar'd, but its possible someone else's is, and could cause an incident similar to the one that happened over Germany (IIRC)



Edit: The more I think about this, the more I feel this is a really really big deal....I realize we ***** on here about all sorts of stuff, company, TSA, ATC, etc, but this is one of those CRM type of situations where a single link in the chain stops a mishap. And right now WE as APC are that link. If there is a possible issue with a type of encoder that over heats and give misreadings, the Original Poster has a duty to FORCE action where ever its required to keep this from becomming the next major mishap in US airline history.