Originally Posted by
Hedley
Holy crap dude, I assumed the smiley face would imply a joke.
Also, after having flown multiple aircraft with and without EICAS, I don't see what the big deal is. If you have a generator fail on a plane with EICAS you get a tone, a message, and then you run the GEN BUS 1 checklist. In a 737 you get a bright orange light, the 6 pack says ELEC, and after looking up to see the source off light illuminated, you simply run the source off checklist. Neither system is remotely unsafe or difficult to comprehend. What are we going to complain about next? Having to trim the aircraft due to airspeed changes when hand flying?
I'm not gonna run through them here but between the reliability of the physical lights themselves to the way you have to find the problem and determine the causal factor, to the risk of missing multiple simultaneous problems, there are an insane number of reasons any basics EICAS system makes more sense than continuing to build new aircraft for the next few decades with a 1960s master recall and press to reset process the 737 has. It would be like mass producing new Chevy Tahoes without shoulder harnesses and airbags. Does everyone die? No. Is it seriously dumb and shortsighted. Yep.