Originally published at: Canada's TSB Fingers Faulty Sensor For RCMP PC-12 Crash - AVweb
Pilot, unaware of a ‘mute’ switch, became sufficiently distracted by the aural warnings that he crashed on landing.
The people responsible for the loonies and twonies need to understand the need for regular recurrent training when aircraft of this size and capability are piloted by a single pilot doing his/her very best to accomplish the mission with no backup whatsoever in the “sparsely settled areas” of the north ( anywhere 100 miles north of the U.S. border. Pretty tragic for all concerned.
To blame the pilots system knowledge of the aural warning inhibit switch in this accident is a garbage TSB recommendation, because the qrh doesn’t mention it at all for inadvertent shaker. It instead says to pull the breakers for the pusher computers. The aural inhibit switch is more of a maintenance function for the /47E.
I thought that the pilot was a female, not that it matters, but the assumption that they were male is a common one.
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.
First order of business, FLY the airplane