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Has EASA commented on this yet? Should be interesting!
Has EASA commented on this yet? Should be interesting!
Just have the pilots wear a crash helmet while napping. Problem solved! 
Seriously though, if the panel can be propelled with enough force to possibly kill a flight crew member, what other damage could it do to flight instruments or maybe even the windows? Perhaps the solution is to hinge the panel or some other means to limit its travel in the (rare) case that it is dislodged.
Welcome to our world as passengers that can’t recline enough to have a good nap either .
Here is a wonderful idea around the AD. Install correct rest facilities for your crew and staff the crew correctly so that pilots get the rest required in accordance with current crew fatigue studies.
The position “money cannot be a consideration where safety is concerned” sounds best when you won’t be paying for it.
Does anyone reading this actually understand the geometry of the door and the panel, and how the panel moves under air pressure?
And space in the 787 flight deck.
I can’t believe the panel flies off the door as is inferred, but it may well be hinged at bottom so its upper edge will fall on pilot seat.
And why only left pilot seat?
(I’ve never seen the 787 flight deck, have flown in both jumpseats in B767 but my focus was forward not on door. (Centre aft jumpseat to see instruments during flight test, foward left jumpseat when riding with colleagues - incredible visibility out side window, over Rockies in sunshine.)