<< >> NASA ASRS Report 937056, February 2011

An air carrier pilot failed to program an efb system not on MEL because he did not believe it was required since the system was in a test stage and not completely functional.

Attributes
ACN	937056
Time
Date	201102
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Dawn
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Large Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Electronic Flt Bag (EFB)
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural MEL Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

We departed with efb's that was not communicating with one another. I was under the impression that the efb's were still in the trial stage and didn't have to be working. I understand that the rules state that anything on the aircraft that is not in the MEL has to be working; but I seriously didn't believe that this applied here since the efb did not have to be a part of the aircraft. I didn't input the departure information during preflight because I didn't believe it to be critical.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Air Carrier pilot failed to program an EFB system not on MEL because he did not believe it was required since the system was in a test stage and not completely functional.

Narrative: We departed with EFB's that was not communicating with one another. I was under the impression that the EFB's were still in the trial stage and didn't have to be working. I understand that the rules state that anything on the aircraft that is not in the MEL has to be working; but I seriously didn't believe that this applied here since the EFB did not have to be a part of the aircraft. I didn't input the departure information during preflight because I didn't believe it to be critical.

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.