Thanks Chris (and Piers), I just knew this was the right place to pose that
query. 😃
On Jun 23, 2016 8:15 AM, "ChrisB" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, Piers. I’ve spoken to several Chinook pilots and things were not
> that rosy. But the crash on the Mull of Kintyre I find a bit difficult; it
> was the last time, I think, that blame was apportioned to the aircrew by a
> Board of Inquiry, but I’m not one of those who think that the pilots were
> necessarily maligned. I know that you can have an uncommanded reduction in
> power, but that aircraft was found halfway up a hill, as I recall, a hill
> that had been in cloud.
>
> I’ll go back and read it again, but there are more pages on PPRuNe on that
> subject than on any other, I believe.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 23 Jun 16, at 12:52, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > " software problem "
> > Judging by what I read of the proven reliability of its FADEC prior to
> release into service*, I think you are a master of understatement, Chris!
> >
> > How about this Boscombe Down memo from June 1994, referring to the
> Chinook HC2 FADEC: "Notwithstanding the claims made in Textron's white
> paper, the problem remains that the product has been shown to be
> unverifiable and is therefore unsuitable for its purpose" as quoted in the
> 2002 House of Commons Select Committee report into the loss of Chinook
> ZD576 later in 1994 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldchin.htm
> <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldchin.htm>
> >
> > There is a whole host of stuff "out there" regarding ZD576 (Mull of
> Kintyre crash), but the Select Committee report will do for now. The RAF
> BoI found "pilot error" to be the cause. Yeah, right!
>
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