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To: SandwicheGuy

Do you really want planes in the air that can crash because of such a simple glitch? A faulty sensor? Why on earth? It sounds like the software itself is only there to cover another design flaw of the nose tipping up unexpectedly on take off. I want safe planes that don’t kill hundreds of people if it can be prevented.


111 posted on 03/14/2019 6:51:58 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“It sounds like the software itself is only there to cover another design flaw of the nose tipping up unexpectedly on take off”

The nose tipping up at take off isn’t a big deal. If the pilots had direct control of the plane at take off it wouldn’t qualify as any sort of design flaw.

The problem is that the computer is in between the pilots and the control surfaces.

And it is incorrectly interpreting the nose tipping up as a “stall”, so it goes nose down to pick up speed. That could make sense if you were at 20,000 feet and the plane’s nose tipped up. When you are just taking off and have no altitude to spare that’s a disaster.

The problem isn’t the plane’s physical design or the pilots, it’s a badly designed computer program that has more control of the plane at take off than do the pilots.


116 posted on 03/14/2019 7:08:37 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I’m sorry, does not compute, don’t want to be mean but you have no clue.


120 posted on 03/14/2019 7:16:34 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)
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