This is the BBC’s Radio 7 broadcast with Jim your friendly afternoon …

Normal service has resumed after an inside job assessment of the foibles of the NHS.
“This is the BBC’s Radio 7 broadcast with Jim your friendly afternoon dissection of the country’s most burning issues”
Thanks for your return Jim:D

Hi Creaking door and Jim
Now you are very close to the problem in Civil Aviation – AF447 tragedy of why although they had 35,000 feet to play with and were flying all perfect seconds prior to disaster (no bomb) that a supposed competent and licensed flying crew spent so much time being distracted by erroneous ‘Fly By Wire’ cross messages (caused initially by pitots icing up and giving false speed readings).
Pitot errors caused by icing up due to weather sensing radar set to low sensitivity (boys in electronics and software had not yet come round to that bug fix or development) seeing only small storm and not the devilish massive storm right behind it. Hence other aircraft in same area got through unscathed as their weather radar was set correctly. Tragedy is they turned ( afull U turn almost in track) but remained pre occupied with sorting electronic mess ups rather than use 35,000 feet to descend slowly (avoiding stall) and put out a call for help from nearby aircraft.

Crew did not themselves take aircraft in to their control including taking auto thrust off.
e.g. Auto thrust of old showed physical movement of thrust levers now they stay stationary when in auto thrust mode – why? it’s all electronics.

Take back early manual control from auto pilot is what older pilots are echoing all round the world – ‘Fly By Wire’ is fine as decision support but always will be behind in programming events into simulation in contrast to reality of combinations of serious events.

Until acne pock marked ‘softies’ fly the jump seat or fly themselves the ‘Fly By Wire’ like all electronics will always be way behind human logic.

DVD and CD players the same. Some acne pock marked kid has written some software/firmware embedded in a silicon chip in the device.His former job a game boy programmer. It has it’s own optimised speed of decision making usually far slower than a mechanical switch or human logic. This optimised speed is slowed even more by the penny pinching manufacturers who cut quality of silicon chips and other interspersed electronics components before it physically release doors.
Second press of button means – crickey – open door and close door.:rolleyes: (“Why are these Old Gits so impatient with my perfect program?” says young acne kid programmer)

Older CD players had a little pin sized hole beside the device which permitted a pin or needle to put in and ejection of the CD manually. Maybe they have gone too.

It’s I-Robot to the fore:D

Never mind headless chickens ……

Hi ThreeSpool

Never mind headless chickens …… Try the pastry counters at most supermarkets. Some very considerate customers (keen on spreading their unwashed hand borne infection) touch (not use tongs or tongs have fallen on floor) the baking/pastries – and lo and behold some even put them back when they change their minds):mad:
Supermarket car parks here are where incapable 4×4 drivers run over (fatally usually) others and usually family – quite a few up here – must be ‘insurance jobs’.

Hi laviticus

It’s called ‘Fair Trade’ women’s journal soppy stuff did you not know? In reality middle man get oodles more , poor ba..ard producing and or picking the veg/fruit produce gets a penny more but his cost of living also escalated. In fact it’s a load of cobblers and all the EU nonsense about perfectly shaped carrots, round tomatoes, perfect fruit and veg. (Christmas tree ornament like):rolleyes:

Fruit and veg you haven’t seen before is for the asylum seekers who are being paid so much and must have their creature comforts in food while settling in for the long haul legal process.:mad:

There was a time a nurse would not be recruited or dismissed for tattoos

benyboy.
Hi Ben, I.M.H.O. I think they should give you your own personal nurse to go home with you There was one in there who was my one to one nurse and she………………………………………………………..Why should I go public on this?.
However, suffice it to say she had 4 tatoos, and I saw every one:eek:
Jim.

Lincoln .7

Jim
There was a time a nurse would not be recruited or dismissed for tattoos as they aren’t good examples to set for people who give advice to patients ie nurses (tattoos are medically frowned on for clinical reasons).Now they wear make up, false eyelashes (drop in to your wound dressing), false nails, silicone implants, (may even be TVs, quick check by the old forces medical verification – “cough now please ” while the nuts are squeezed hard ), body jewellery, etc

As for not going public about your private pole/lap dancer (oh sorry nurse) that’s being a spoil sport.;)
Jay:D

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A Hospital Chef was taking loads of food into this room, which was eventualy visited by no less than 15 “High up managers”.
The object of this, was to see if a new range of food was palatable for the patients.
I would have loved to have asked them how many patients had complained about the current food, management, pure waste of money go hand in glove with each other.
Methinks some very heavy pruning needs to be done at Management level, many are just not needed, how they justify their salery I havn’t a clue, and if truth be told, I bet they can’t either.

Jim.
Managers in all business (more so in the NHS) are a complete waste of space in this day and age of highly trained (in most cases) highly qualified teams of employees.
The word manager is like a red rag to a bull in my case. Never needed any until I came in to my recent undergraduate student survival job. Awful time wasters and as you say they could neither justify what they do or tell anyone the %age they contribute each day, week, month or year to the business’s productivity or revenue (just bleed it instead):mad:
Jay:D

Good to have you back – while recouperating get your hands on ..

Hi Jim
Good to have you back – while recouperating get your hands on ..
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Colin+Douglas&x=0&y=0

A series of book authored by Colin Douglas (actual name Dr. Colin Currie for all his outspoken books – hilariously funny, ended up a Consultant of Gernotology – he’s still very much alive and many of the characters in his books are also alive and can by those in the know be easily identified in and around Edinburgh.

You seem just about to write a sequel. Great money in it I am sure.

I sort feel concerned about the lack of respect or care about pre op patients from ward to anaesthetic room. Also the mix ups with medication. Maybe an optician for the ‘fairy’ nurse is on the cards.

As for the INNIT – well the UK standards for appointing of Medical Consultants must have taken a politically correct turn for the worse as one of the strict criteria was the excellent command of spoken, read and written English language (Just imagine the guy in a Coroner’s Court – but then who knows the Judge may also say INNIT :rolleyes: in this PC world)

Take care as you mend and keep the post recovery episodes rolling in. 😀

Sandy your source please – see stats below

Sandy your source please for 737NG disasters?

On http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_manu_details.cgi?aircraft=737
lists by Boeing type 737 from 08-12-1972 to 16-08-2010

Here are some stats. I gleaned from http://planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
but the most recent decade has as yet no info.

I see no major changes in the stats comparing decades apart from an increase in mechanical failure in 2000-09. Reasons for mechanical failure I have as yet not an opportunity to get to more granular stats on Boeing 737NG specifically.

Is it simply that there are many more Boeing 737 in operation now ?

Charts from Google Docs