Re: Commander's Decision?

I think its more a case of saying that here is a way to fly with an
intermittent fault nobody has any idea how to fix. The main part of the
proposal is that only a 1 min launch window will exist which uses less fuel
and thus a reduced risk of the eco system being needed occurs.

However, whatever they decide, someone is really going to have to look at
these sensors again. Mysteries like this need to be solved. They appear to
have thought it had been fixed, but either there is more than one problem,
or the one they found was a red herring.. I'm sure there is a joke about
tanks and herrings there somewhere...

As to whether you can interpret it as a no way jose from the crew, well,
there is a very politically sensitive payload as well, to consider, and it
would not be very helpful if they lost that, now would it?

In reality, as far as I can see, the risk of launching without the system is
very small, but Murphy's law is very well known in engineering and if an
engine fault was to occur, you can bet it would be in a flight where a
sensor faled.

Brian



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"Jim in Houston" <nospamjamesgoodum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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News reports state that the "Crew Office" made the proposal that if
all four ECO's were not working properly they would not fly. Is this a
case of the CDR putting his foot down, so to speak, and saying I, or
we, don't want to, or will not fly, if the system is not working 100%?
If so, has this ever happened before?
Thanks,
Jim in Houston.

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