[Peetwo]

Thanks TK – solid, good sense always welcome.  A rarity when MH370 is mentioned.  I’m pleased the French are not shooting ‘from the hip’ and a dialogue like yours explains why.  Problem of course for us is being ‘bloody pilots’ the finesse of ‘investigation’ and the subtleties of complex ‘engineering’ are a mystery to most.  I dare say the wise French owls will give us detailed analysis; in one form another , just as soon as they are sure.  Nice to know that at last, no faeary tales will be spun; or, phoney ‘experts’ will be polishing and spinning.

"I’m pleased the French are not shooting ‘from the hip’ and a dialogue like yours explains why." 


Have a lot of respect for the work of the BEA. I've no doubt that their analysis will be thorough, with no stone left unturned. 


Part of the problem regarding MH370, is the "phony" experts. People over-claiming expertise & providing information that is consistently wrong. Generally speaking, it appears that people's perceptions of expertise is somewhat relative.  Come across like you're educated & know something (even if you don't possess relevant quals/expertise), & you'll likely fool many. But for those of us who work in the industry, it is often much easier to see past all the puffery & BS. 

Just sayin!

Yes excellent stuff TK & while we're at it pardon my ignorance on the 'nose rib' hole etc. I am but a simple knuckledragger.

While on the subject of 'phony' or 'wannabe' experts it is worth reflecting on a post of mine from early back in 'the search for IP' and may help to explain why members of PAIN have such concerns that the current crop of executive managers/commissioners at the ATSB are in charge of overseeing the MH370 SIO deep sea search - #post15:

While I'm raiding that UP thread I thought it worthwhile regurgitating 4 posts off page 2 that partly explains the slide of the bureau. It is for mine extremely sad that the BASI/ATSB has gone from a small, poorly resourced air safety watchdog that used to punch well above its weight and was held in high esteem throughout the aviation safety fraternity worldwide; to an insipid non-independent AAI that panders to the political/commercial interests of various DIPs to higher profile investigations, while playing submissive lapdog to the big R regulator behemoth CASA...   

        
MTF...P2