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A train may not get checked before every departure, but it does have a pretty thorough check before entering service & the fact that it is at ground level kind of helps the situation when things go wrong rather than being 0,000's of feet up in the sky!ianmanson wrote:the whole point of the fuel coming out the end of the wing is its away from the engine (in which fuel burns). The difference between a train and an aircraft is that the pilot in command has to do countless number of checks before even attempting to take off. A train does not get checked for every departure its going to make
At the beginning of the day, the driver and Conductor give the train a thoro check to make sure all equipment is working as it should.ianmanson wrote:the TACAS system problem would be an avionics problem (dealt with a different set of engineers).
Trains may not be thousands of feet in the sky but can carry as many people, if not more, therefore more people at risk. Before entering service? does that mean at the beginning of the day, when the driver first gets in the train on that day, on every service, or when the train is first delivered?
Surely the numbers issue is nullified by the differing survivability of the two modes of transport and their natures. I’d quite fancy my chances of walking away from an accident aboard a train. Can’t say the same of an accident on an aircraft, be it airborne or on the ground.ianmanson wrote:Trains may not be thousands of feet in the sky but can carry as many people, if not more, therefore more people at risk.
