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To: old curmudgeon

I’m not sure but I think the flight control computers would not “allow” such unsafe maneuvers. They watch pilot inputs and don’t let them do things that take it outside the nominal flight envelope. Maybe. A trained pilot would know, might not want to take the chance of the automated systems preventing the crash, or minimizing it into a hard landing short....


19 posted on 05/21/2016 10:15:24 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

The safeguards can be disabled.


24 posted on 05/22/2016 5:10:53 AM PDT by jazminerose (o)
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To: ThunderSleeps

The record books are full of crashes not prevented by the computers.

The recent crash in the alps by the suicidal German pilot.

The French pilot who stalled the aircraft when his instruments malfunctioned due to ice.....

I am not familiar with the nav systems on big iron, but I am sure that if you put the wrong coordinates in the nave system you would get unpleasing results.


26 posted on 05/22/2016 6:20:03 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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