We started to realise that at a meeting last week :-)
Chris
> On 20 May 2017, at 15:14, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Guess what ChrisB - the displays are in the other 5% ;-)
>
> On 20 May 2017 at 13:48, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Ah, there’s another snag, DavidT: the simulators that I mentioned (we have
>> two) were installed in 2004 and some display components are failing,
>> components for which spares are no longer available. Last week some young
>> and keen contract officers (on our side) found clauses in the contract
>> which stated that the contractor would maintain 95% availability of spares
>> for the life of the equipment (15 years). This came as a shock to the
>> contractor’s chief engineer, as well it might.
>>
>> I don’t know about more savvy types on the List, but it would seem
>> unreasonable for the contractor, a very well regarded designer and supplier
>> of such kit, to be held to that sort of contract term – given the speed of
>> obsolescence of the stuff that we are talking about. And having XP running
>> the system is a minor problem in comparison . . .
>>
>> Chris
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