San Francisco Flight Operations should have taken care of the understanding of what it meant to pilots involved with it's airspace while it was experiencing construction.
The exact parameters of what is involved when there is no "Fly by wire" should be spelled out with a requirement of an electronic signature BY THE PILOT and CO-PILOT to acknowledge that BEFORE the flight takes off or leaves as San Francisco airport as a final destination.
Those instructions can be as simple as "Flight instrumentation will be inoperable in many parameters as there is no Fly by Wire currently at SFO. There are measures to provide for a safe manual landing and those are... Kindly check the Flight Operations Manual for the aircraft being flown to insure proper and safe operation."
Within the Flight Operations Manual there needs to be EXACT understanding of what is required to "Fly off the Wire." There also needs to be experienced pilots within the airline manufacturers personnel listing to answer questions should there be any questions to Flight Operations, pilots, co-pilots and navigators.
"Flying off the Wire" should never mean flying by the seat of your pants.
Any airport also should have available to anyone, including passengers and the public, the landing dynamics in good weather and extreme. Every airport is unique with it's own geological location and has somewhat standard dynamics to the 'quality' of it's airspace.
If SFO and Asian did not provide this information to their pilots then they are liable through negligence. If Boeing did not provide training for the 777 "Off the Wire" and include it in any manuals to pilots then they are negligent as well.
The exact parameters of what is involved when there is no "Fly by wire" should be spelled out with a requirement of an electronic signature BY THE PILOT and CO-PILOT to acknowledge that BEFORE the flight takes off or leaves as San Francisco airport as a final destination.
Those instructions can be as simple as "Flight instrumentation will be inoperable in many parameters as there is no Fly by Wire currently at SFO. There are measures to provide for a safe manual landing and those are... Kindly check the Flight Operations Manual for the aircraft being flown to insure proper and safe operation."
Within the Flight Operations Manual there needs to be EXACT understanding of what is required to "Fly off the Wire." There also needs to be experienced pilots within the airline manufacturers personnel listing to answer questions should there be any questions to Flight Operations, pilots, co-pilots and navigators.
"Flying off the Wire" should never mean flying by the seat of your pants.
Any airport also should have available to anyone, including passengers and the public, the landing dynamics in good weather and extreme. Every airport is unique with it's own geological location and has somewhat standard dynamics to the 'quality' of it's airspace.
If SFO and Asian did not provide this information to their pilots then they are liable through negligence. If Boeing did not provide training for the 777 "Off the Wire" and include it in any manuals to pilots then they are negligent as well.
