Re: No pass yet: maybe by 1-15
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Message: No pass yet: maybe by 1-15
| Firestream | Tuesday, 12/22/15 11:25:56 PM | |
| Re: Kicks69 post# 66009 | ||
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I just got back to Michigan from New York sorry I couldn't respond sooner!
To answer your question, yes if it goes good for Baltia I expect a R1 deployment just to cover their butts as you put it. They need a slide to do the Ditch so that would work out anyway. Baltia is not opposed to that but does feel they deserve a pass with the evidence provided to the FAA in the Dec. 16th meeting.
To answer what the difference from the November to the December meeting is that in the December meeting Igor and Baltia staff that attended the meeting went into great detail with a Time Line Chart showing every step that happened from table top to the present. The people that are in Washington were not at the test or weeks following the test to understand it or what actions Baltia took after each problem arise. 5 out of 7 tests were due to a failure of the slides. Not one single test did the crew not exceed expectations, which is the part that many airlines fail in the Mini's besides slide issues. The first meeting was only 1 hour to go over the whole presentation of why Baltia should be given a pass. In that presentation Baltia stated that they took appropriated actions to resolve the issues but did not go into details of what was actually done. The FAA staff in that meeting didn't understand what steps Baltia took each time. Igor laid that out for them and showed the FAA over a 2 hour period in the second meeting that they took actions each time to try and correct a problem that no one from the FAA to the manufacture could ever figure out how to correct ( the industry wide slide failures). But Baltia did find out what the issue was and corrected it ( the length of a strap was the issue). Mini 7 would have passed because Baltia fixed the deployment issue ( all slides did deploy), but the slide was internally pack incorrectly from the FAA approved vendor. There was no way that Baltia could see that. They would be responsible for all the outside components, but Baltia can't be held responsible for the inside when they don't have the ability to inspect this. Yet Baltia stepped up one more time and after mini 7 went down to the packing facility and went step by step with the manuals that Boeing says the slides must be packed like and watched every step to make sure it was done to the manufactures specifications. No other Airlines do this, they just slap the slides in and forget it until they come up for replacement. Then slap another one in. Baltia took corrective actions and that's what they showed to the FAA in GREAT detail in the second meeting. From what they felt the meeting went very well. They are now waiting to hear what the FAA will say.
To answer your question, yes if it goes good for Baltia I expect a R1 deployment just to cover their butts as you put it. They need a slide to do the Ditch so that would work out anyway. Baltia is not opposed to that but does feel they deserve a pass with the evidence provided to the FAA in the Dec. 16th meeting.
To answer what the difference from the November to the December meeting is that in the December meeting Igor and Baltia staff that attended the meeting went into great detail with a Time Line Chart showing every step that happened from table top to the present. The people that are in Washington were not at the test or weeks following the test to understand it or what actions Baltia took after each problem arise. 5 out of 7 tests were due to a failure of the slides. Not one single test did the crew not exceed expectations, which is the part that many airlines fail in the Mini's besides slide issues. The first meeting was only 1 hour to go over the whole presentation of why Baltia should be given a pass. In that presentation Baltia stated that they took appropriated actions to resolve the issues but did not go into details of what was actually done. The FAA staff in that meeting didn't understand what steps Baltia took each time. Igor laid that out for them and showed the FAA over a 2 hour period in the second meeting that they took actions each time to try and correct a problem that no one from the FAA to the manufacture could ever figure out how to correct ( the industry wide slide failures). But Baltia did find out what the issue was and corrected it ( the length of a strap was the issue). Mini 7 would have passed because Baltia fixed the deployment issue ( all slides did deploy), but the slide was internally pack incorrectly from the FAA approved vendor. There was no way that Baltia could see that. They would be responsible for all the outside components, but Baltia can't be held responsible for the inside when they don't have the ability to inspect this. Yet Baltia stepped up one more time and after mini 7 went down to the packing facility and went step by step with the manuals that Boeing says the slides must be packed like and watched every step to make sure it was done to the manufactures specifications. No other Airlines do this, they just slap the slides in and forget it until they come up for replacement. Then slap another one in. Baltia took corrective actions and that's what they showed to the FAA in GREAT detail in the second meeting. From what they felt the meeting went very well. They are now waiting to hear what the FAA will say.
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