Yes, napping in the flight deck is a problem. The point of having two pilots is redundancy, if you incapacitate one of them, what’s the point?
It’s not an outrageous requirement to be conscious during a duty day.
Sure, when you are in cruise, it’s a low threat phase of flight, but if you need a nap in cruise, chances are you were fatigued when you departed.
A much better system is to allow pilots to remove themselves from duty, without repercussions, when they are fatigued.
I would make sure to have that in writing.
Delete my comment because I guess my understanding isn’t as concrete as I’d like it to be.
Isn’t socialism just the way to get to communism?
Right, but as far as I know, that nitrogen isn’t bio-available to other plants until the clover dies. The nitrogen is produced, just not usable.
I don’t have any personal experience with clover, but I would bet it has better traffic tolerance than wild violet.
When I was looking into alternatives to grass, I was considering micro-clover, but in the end I settled on good old grass.
When taken care of correctly, I could get away with mowing about once a week on average. This was with no watering and minimal fertilizing. And I still had people stop on the sidewalk to complement it.
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I don’t think it will be too much of a problem then, but some broadleaf ground covers don’t tolerate foot traffic too well.
I had a section of my lawn that was wild violet, and the second it got wet and walked on it was a mud pit! My 15 pound dog was tracking foot prints all over our house so it had to go!
Do you use your yard? Or is it primarily just to look at?
It also improves the soil quality.
If your referencing it’s nitrogen fixing capabilities, I believe the clover has to die for it to be available to other plants.
All said, out of all the plants you could have in your lawn, clover is a good one!
Out of curiosity, how long ago did they do this? Just ballpark, like 1 year, 5 years, etc.
I noticed it when I started flying in this year, it’s interesting. I can’t remember seeing something similar (or as pronounced) elsewhere.
I don’t know… You sure seem to have the personality for it!
should the footage be wiped between each flight? yes.
Unfortunately that’s not how it would work, current FDR data already isn’t wiped between flights, and has been used in the past to discipline crew members.
The issue with that is that when the blame game starts, people inherently try to hide stuff rather than admit fault and work towards a solution.
So where do you draw the line? Should everyone always have a camera pointed at them for “safety”?
I get what you’re saying, but how many thousands of cycles do you think the 787 has on it for this to be the first time they failed, and for two separate switches to fail seconds apart?
Accident investigators are very good at what they do, and I will be willing to bet they will be able to narrow it down to an actual cause, even without a camera.
It is my understanding that it is known the switches were moved, not that there was a failure that reproduced the same effect.
Switches can be monitored meaning their position is known and recorded. Further the odds of them both failing, one second apart is almost zero. All signs point towards someone turned them off, and one of the pilots had a history of mental health issues. It’s not a guarantee, but the math seems to be adding up.
My understanding is that we already know that information, we have the technology to know when the switch is moved, not just when the system acts as if the switch is moved.
I can’t imagine the fuel cutoff switches aren’t monitored, and if they aren’t that’s something that should already exist.
Once again, I will point out, and I really hope I’m not jinxing it, but the USA doesn’t have cockpit cameras, and even still has a pretty exceptional safety record.
And I understand blame is not the intent, but pardon me if I don’t believe that information won’t be used against the crew. This pretty much killed single pilot operations, so now the other solution is to put the crews under a magnifying glass until you can find more problems you can use.
Ohhhhhhh buddy you activated my trap card. I happen to have multiple type ratings, and I still consider myself far from an expert. However I do still hold a CFI so I’m going to try to teach you some stuff!
Every airplane that I’ve been required to have a type rating for has a radar altimeter. A lot of systems already use that information, from auto landings, to caution message inhibits, down to GLD spoilers. Watch any “landing an airliner” YouTube videos, I feel pretty safe in saying generally you will hear an audible “50, 40, 30, 20, 10”, that information is usually derived from the radar altimeter.
While you are correct, there are emergency checklists that do require engine shutdowns, there are very few that would require that to be done weight off wheels and under 1000ft AGL. Off the top of my head, the ditching (landing in water) checklist would, but that could be tied to a ditching switch, if equipped, which since I don’t have a 787 type, I don’t know if it does, but I would guess it probably does.
Seeing as you know what a pitot tube is I’m going to assume you at least have some interest in flying. The pitot tube is used for airspeed, what you’re probably thinking of is the other part of that system called the static port. That’s used for things like altitude and vertical speed.
Circling back to my “simple fix”, my current airframe has triple redundant hydraulics with dual redundant pumps for each. So for something that has that much redundancy, don’t you think something as critical as an engine should require more than one switch to shutdown, at least at an altitude of high vulnerability? Just food for thought.
What’s to learn? From this incident specifically.
That a pilot with a history of mental health issues most likely did it? What does that teach us? And what are we going to do about it?
Anything shy of treating it as a disability and retiring the pilot with full pay until their retirement age will result in people still hiding rather than looking for help when they need it.
The USA doesn’t have cockpit cameras and has a pretty exceptional safety record, so I’m not sure what anyone is hoping to achieve other than blame someone, which is entirely contradictory to safety.
A camera wouldn’t have prevented anything, it would only make blame slightly easier.
Maybe improved mental health resources for pilots would be more helpful.
Or maybe not having a single point of failure for something so critical. Airplane engines are made to burn for a while before they become a problem, so why can’t a two engine shutdown be inhibited below a certain radar altitude, or something of that nature?
Seems like a lot of pretty easy fixes that would work preemptively, rather than just another $20 part marked up to $20,000 because it comes with a FAA part number, that can only be used to assign blame after the fact.
Let me ask everyone this, would you want a camera in your office? Or should nurses have to wear body cameras all shift just so if something happens to a patient they can make sure they can blame the correct person?
Absolutely, why should only some people be afforded a right.
Criminals will be criminals, take guns away and they start running cars through crowds.
I don’t think it’s as “astroturfed” as much as it’s a distilled echo chamber.