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B737 first officer reported the table of contents page numbers for the non-normal section regarding flight controls may be inaccurate. Trim runaway checklist was difficult to find. Flight ops bulletin is difficult to understand.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1626691 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201903 |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737 Next Generation Undifferentiated |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Checklists |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 216 Flight Crew Total 6790 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
With the 737 max's grounded in the world today can the flight controls non normal section table of contents page numbers be messed up. 3 highly experienced 737 pilots took 10 minutes in cruise to find the trim runaway checklist in flight. Bulletin X is so subtle that only after reading it several times and having this issue myself did I realize the gravity of its words. With 99 percent of line pilots using paper checklists this is simply unacceptable. All [union] and company representatives contacted tonight about this agreed this is totally wrong. A note that the hyperlinks are correct in the ipad qrc does not cut it with all other ways of access inaccurate. If this airplane were to go down because of this technology issue it would look good on the front page of [newspaper]. If you want the ipad to be the sole source of non-normal guidance take the paper checklist out of the aircraft. Otherwise fix the paper timely.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: B737 First Officer reported the table of contents page numbers for the non-normal section regarding flight controls may be inaccurate. Trim runaway checklist was difficult to find. Flight ops bulletin is difficult to understand.
Narrative: With the 737 Max's grounded in the world today can the flight controls non normal section table of contents page numbers be messed up. 3 highly experienced 737 pilots took 10 minutes in cruise to find the trim runaway checklist in flight. Bulletin X is so subtle that only after reading it several times and having this issue myself did I realize the gravity of its words. With 99 percent of line pilots using paper checklists this is simply unacceptable. All [Union] and company representatives contacted tonight about this agreed this is totally wrong. A note that the hyperlinks are correct in the iPad QRC does not cut it with all other ways of access inaccurate. If this airplane were to go down because of this technology issue it would look good on the front page of [newspaper]. If you want the iPad to be the sole source of non-normal guidance take the paper checklist out of the aircraft. Otherwise fix the paper timely.
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.