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Can EFIS / EFMS lead to removing basic safety checks?
This question is the result of the wrong runway issue at LEX last
weekend. Not having flown an EFIS or EFMS myself, I'm not sure of the "into position checklist items". For example, in a standard steam-gauge panel one of the last things we check is to align the directional gyro with the runway heading and compass. With an EFIS or EFMS, is there any such last minute check, or is the heading assumed to be correct because it was aligned by the GPS when the bird came out of the chocks? If there is no requirement to manually align and verify runway heading, compass, and EFIS/EFMS then our technological advances have inadvertently removed one of our heretofore unrecognized safety checks. I heard some retired commuter pilot on the news last weekend suggesting that the only way to prevent this in the future is to put traffic lights (stop / go) on the end of every runway. I absolutely got the impression that he was there to convince the public that it is almost impossible for the pilots to get it right and the lack of the traffic signal was the whole cause of the problem. Sort of the typical "not my fault" attitude. |
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