CatYaaak
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Wasted said:So should no attempt be made to correct these deficiencies then? Mountains and the ground are common too, aren't they? Thousands of planes fly over mountains and ground everyday safely. If they said the same thing about it twenty years ago, then nobody would have bothered to develop and pay for installing GPWS then. Nothing excuses not realizing you are on the wrong runway, but the controllable factors that increase the probability that someone could unwittingly do something like this need to be reduced as well.
Thank you so much for basing your point on something I DIDN'T say, or even infer in the slightest.
Twenty years ago GPWS had already been invented, and I was among those arguing it should be in every jet or large aircraft. I wanted one. I hate crashing into mountains.
AA's Cali accident occurred many years after GPWS had been installed in all jet transport aircraft. Their's was functioning properly.
I love TCAS...it's saved my a$$ a few times.
A few years ago a TCAS-equipped Russian airliner blew a TCAS-equipped DHL cargo transport out of the sky in a mid-air collision in a lightly-congested, low-workload, enroute radar environment. Both TCASs were functioning properly.
Now you go ahead and take that career break until such time technology can spoon-feed you all the pilot-proof safety you need.
Or maybe it's better if we pilots quit giving the engineers tragic REASONS to develop new safety devices or the FAA to write new regs since they'll be doing those things anyway, by concentrating our energy on, and figuring out how to operate ("operation" is OUR area of expertise) more safely in this imperfect world until someone engineers and mandates it into perfection.
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