Hear, Hear - I couldnt agree more.
What will prevent future accidents is vigilance and care, not knee jerk
redesigns.
The current PFA solution may not be perfect but it is simply intended to
bring ALL Europas up to a safe standad. The likelyhood is that 99% of
Europas are safe anyway (but we just dont know).
I just dont see the need for mass paranoia. How many of us have checked th
security of our TP6 joints recently? How many of us found faulty bonds. I
suspect the answer is Zero. If I am wrong, Mod73 will fix that.
I agree that a more robust fix should be implemented in the future but IMHO
this would be more about confidence in the Europa fleet then increasing the
safety factor.
You cant get away from the fact that the Europa has shown itself to be a
very safe aircraft over the last 10 years.
Carl Pattinson
G-LABS
Still Flying (the Europa !!!)
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> Jos made the point. Hundreds of Europas have flown tens of
> thousands of hours without any previous sign of any
> serious problems in the elevator fixing.
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> The AAIB have NOT yet reported (the interim report said
> nothing) and it may not have been the TP6 that was the
> primary cause of the accident.
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> Why go for belt, braces and piece of string solutions to a
> problem that may not exist ?
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> Any long term fix should be required not instantly but in
> the course of a reasonable period. But we do need a final
> solution not a series of solutions, each more onerous and
> complicated and expensive than the previous.
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> Richard Holder
> G-OWWW High Cross
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