Originally Posted by
strfyr51
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What actual difference does it make HOW it came about? Because just llke everything Else, Unless they issue the iPad to EACH pilot and make THEM Personally responsible for them? As usual, it will fall on Maintenence
to replace them after they're abused or stolen from one airplane to another after one doesn't work somewhere and a Captain will tell some Controller they can't Possibly open a flight bag and READ the flight manual anymore. Just like we've had refusals for Autobrakes, Autothrottles an Adiru being inop (when there are Three on board. Or an Apu being inop Flying over Mountains west of Denver, as if having the APU is going to help the airplane in GETTING over the Mountains. So No, I don't care essentially about the ipad OR the EFB just the added BS it will bring after it's installed. Heck I'm still wondering How some crew's flew BEFORE we had autoland to hear all the "Caterwauling" I hear when it's inop. JEEZ!
Just seems like another "Bell and Whistle" to me..
Well those "bells and whistles" usually came about because a bunch of people died not having it.
You guys might think we are pansies when we refuse airplanes for things that we never used to have. But remember that YOU won't be at the other end of the long table if something goes wrong and you have to explain yourself. Example: Let's say you take an airplane without Autobrakes. You ingest a bird right before V1 and end up aborting. Let's say its a little slick and you end up running off the end of the runway and someone gets hurt in the evac. Do you think the Maintenance personnel who I now have to "discuss" my refusals with will be sitting their with their ticket on the table? If you ran off the runway BEFORE we had Autobrakes, you can't be faulted for them not working. If you run off a runway after deciding to take an airplane that had them installed but not working, the FAA WILL ding you for not operating at "the highest level of safety". Sorry, but I'm not going to let peer pressure and comments take me into a situation that I can't defend if something goes wrong.
That being said, I had a FIRST the other night. A mechanic who wouldn't sign off an airplane that was technically legal to defer because of the relationship between multiple failures. That guy earned my deep respect.