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DE727UPS · October 13th, 2006, 13:22

"Pretty soon, a habit has evolved that fails to verify the switch in AUTO. Then one day it's not in AUTO - - it doesn't work"

If there's one thing that will bite you in the butt it's not checking ALL the switches in your cockpit setup. The kind of complacency is pretty common (seen it in myself). Mechanics get up there between flights and do all kinds of weird things with switches, sometimes. Then they don't put them back. You gotta force yourself to check all them switches.

October 13th, 2006, 13:22	#7
DE727UPS Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 6,547	Re: Human error blamed for 2005 Greek crash "Pretty soon, a habit has evolved that fails to verify the switch in AUTO. Then one day it's not in AUTO - - it doesn't work" If there's one thing that will bite you in the butt it's not checking ALL the switches in your cockpit setup. The kind of complacency is pretty common (seen it in myself). Mechanics get up there between flights and do all kinds of weird things with switches, sometimes. Then they don't put them back. You gotta force yourself to check all them switches.