A B777 captain attempted to comply with his company's policy to determine which aircraft contained a...

Narrative:

I noticed they removed the requirement to put a placard on the logbook of the bp-16 airplanes. The bulletin now states that the pilots will receive 'clear communications' identifying which airplanes have bp-16 installed. That 'clear communications' doesn't exist. Since the bp-16 aims started to appear few first officer's I've asked knew which bp was installed in the aircraft after they'd done their setup. Few had set the FMC selector according to the bulletin. In fact; most had only a vague idea about the bulletin and the consequences of using spaces or slashes on certain FMC pages.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B777 Captain attempted to comply with his company's policy to determine which aircraft contained AIMS (Airplane Information Management System) BP-16 upgrade; but was unaware of the process to access the data display.

Narrative: I noticed they removed the requirement to put a placard on the logbook of the BP-16 airplanes. The bulletin now states that the pilots will receive 'clear communications' identifying which airplanes have BP-16 installed. That 'clear communications' doesn't exist. Since the BP-16 AIMS started to appear few FO's I've asked knew which BP was installed in the aircraft after they'd done their setup. Few had set the FMC selector according to the Bulletin. In fact; most had only a vague idea about the Bulletin and the consequences of using spaces or slashes on certain FMC pages.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.

Attributes
ACN	1303484
Time
Date	201510
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B777 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Flight Dynamics Navigation and Safety
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A B777 captain attempted to comply with his company's policy to determine which aircraft contained aims (airplane information management system) bp-16 upgrade; but was unaware of the process to access the data display.