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Steve Scott
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The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Boeing Laptop Tool BLT stands for a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, but for the average airline crew it's also a Boeing Laptop Tool. It was designed to make flight crews' lives easier, by streamlining the procedure for calculating takeoff data. We're not sure whether any Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) was ever carried out on this new cockpit instrument when it entered service. However, it's beginning to look as if there…

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