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Airbusitis

This is what happens when your inexperienced pilots do nothing except enter data unto the flight computer and do little hand flying.

Sounds like the Air France flight that pitched into the Atlantic after the speed indications failed. The pilots were so confused, they spent their final minutes doing exactly the opposite of what every new pilot is taught.


6 posted on 01/20/2015 8:34:40 AM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (Those that vote for a living outnumber those that work for one.)
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

Hence reason #1 of 3 why I don’t fly at all anymore. #2 is I will not be fondled by TSA, #3 I go nowhere I cannot carry.


8 posted on 01/20/2015 8:37:41 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

One thing I learned about Aibus control systems after the Air France crash is that the system sums the inputs from the control yokes together, so if one pilot was pushing forward, and the other was pulling back, the total input would be zero. In that crash, one pilot was treating the situation correectly and the other was negating his actions.


16 posted on 01/20/2015 8:56:10 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

“The pilots were so confused, they spent their final minutes doing exactly the opposite of what every new pilot is taught.”

The copilot. The pilot was not in the cockpit till too late.


20 posted on 01/20/2015 9:09:27 AM PST by TexasGator (")
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