Captain refused aircraft due to multiple maintenance issues.

Attributes
ACN	1311967
Time
Date	201511
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	FMS/FMC
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Type 21000
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Maintenance

Narrative:

Deadhead to pick up flight. Upon arrival; am informed that the last crew assigned the aircraft refused to fly it. I told ops 'I'd take a look' to see if it was dispatchable. Upon inspection of the logbook; I noticed that the FMS was non-operable and to put some icing on the cake; the pressurization system had failed also and was being run in manual mode. I then refused the aircraft also. Now; in all honesty; if I had to fly around texas on a bright sunny day such that it was; this aircraft would have been workable (notice I didn't say 'fine'). But to go to a busy airport in the country with an aircraft that can't do LNAV or VNAV and doing it single pilot-like because if you haven't run a pressure controller in manual; you'd quickly realize that your basically single-piloted because it takes that much attention from the first officer running that system alone. So; I utilized my judgement built on years of flying and opted not to take it.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Captain refused aircraft due to multiple maintenance issues.

Narrative: Deadhead to pick up flight. Upon arrival; am informed that the last Crew assigned the aircraft refused to fly it. I told Ops 'I'd take a look' to see if it was dispatchable. Upon inspection of the logbook; I noticed that the FMS was non-operable and to put some icing on the cake; the pressurization system had failed also and was being run in manual mode. I then refused the aircraft also. Now; in all honesty; if I had to fly around Texas on a bright sunny day such that it was; this aircraft would have been workable (Notice I didn't say 'Fine'). But to go to a busy airport in the country with an aircraft that can't do LNAV or VNAV and doing it single Pilot-like because if you haven't run a pressure controller in manual; you'd quickly realize that your basically single-Piloted because it takes that much attention from the FO running that system alone. So; I utilized my judgement built on years of flying and opted not to take it.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.