Originally Posted by
gloopy
I’ve heard some muckity mucks in the 73 world verify it’s an issue. Debating on pressing on or delaying. While HUD is deferrable, the fleet has made it the default standard, so unleashing an entire sub fleet without it for possibly a long while presents an issue with fleet philosophical alignment.
Its way above most of our pay grades, other than the question of will it delay those airframes into revenue service or not.
I don't think deferral has anything to do with operating a subfleet with different equipment. But even if it did, the MEL is valid for what, 90 days?