Cirrus' "Failing Instruments In Rapid Succession"

"Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net wrote in
:

Sure the chute worked as advertised. Great.

What irks me is how and why the aircraft experienced all these
instrument failures one right after another. If any of our
Pipers/Cessnas/Beechcrafts had a propensity to experience near
simultaneous failures of supposedly separate systems there would be an
uproar. Fresh off a maintenance visit or not, sounds like a dangerous
design of single-to-many points of failures. With an airframe serial
number of 80, I am assuming this was not a glass cockpit.

Did this strike anyone else as bothersome?

Marco





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propensity

n 1: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
[syn: leaning, tendency] 2: a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity
for exaggeration" [syn: proclivity, leaning] 3: a disposition to behave
in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of
disease to spread" [syn: aptness]


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University



I don't believe that the after action report of a single instance of a
action meets the definition of propensity. It also remains to be seen
just what happened here. Did the instruments fail, or did the pilot not
believe the indications?

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:26:33 GMT, John Theune
wrote:


I don't believe that the after action report of a single instance of a
action meets the definition of propensity. It also remains to be seen
just what happened here. Did the instruments fail, or did the pilot not
believe the indications?

The same thing happened in Lexington, Ky. Only that time the shut did
not work but the pilot was able to recover after he broke out of a low
cloud cover an land in a field.

If you have been following the COPA web site you will see a history of
a high rate of individual instrument failures so sooner or later
multiple failures are bound to occur.