<< >> NASA ASRS Report 824519, February 2009

A320 captain believed maintenance is failing to repair or replace crts written up as being too dim for daytime visibility.

Attributes
ACN	824519
Time
Date	200902
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Cockpit Lighting
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 185 Flight Crew Total 11500 Flight Crew Type 3300
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Maintenance

Narrative:

Another in the long list of dim crts signed off in accordance with a maintenance tip that has no bearing on how much light the CRT can produce. Even the dim ones are ok at night.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 Captain believed maintenance is failing to repair or replace CRTs written up as being too dim for daytime visibility.

Narrative: Another in the long list of dim CRTs signed off in accordance with a maintenance tip that has no bearing on how much light the CRT can produce. Even the dim ones are OK at night.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.