[r9etb]

Primary flight controls become inoperative on the A300B4 with total loss of hydraulic pressure, because there is no manual reversion.

Oops. What kind of French dough-head designs a zero-fault tolerant control system?

IIRC, after the Iowa landing, engines-only landings of that sort became a standard training scenario for American airline pilots. I'm wondering if the DHL guys had had some training, too -- the article isn't quite clear on it.

[UNGN]

Oops. What kind of French dough-head designs a zero-fault tolerant control system?

The same kind of Frenchman that designs a Tail not to withstand pilot rudder inputs.

The same kind of Frenchman that stands there filming when Missiles are being launched against a Commercial Airliner.

Is there any other kind of Frenchman?

[eyespysomething]

The same French who designed the Chauchat machine gun in WWI.

[brewcrew]

It's my understanding (being a non-aviator) that the pilot's input into the control systems of an Airbus are equally matched with 4 redundant computers. In essence, the pilot has one of 5 "votes" when deciding what to do to the aircraft to change its course.

Rumor has it that it is the subject of books written by Airbus pilots, and they constantly discuss these things amongst themselves: how to perform specific tricks to outsmart the other 4 computer systems that will be "voting" against them.

[captcurt777]

UMM, THE ARTICLE MENTION FULL LOSS OF HYDRAULIC CONTROL, REGARDLESS,OF FRENCH MADE OR NOT IF A BOEING AIRPLANE GETS HITT AND LOSSES HYDRALIC CONTROL,THEY WILL BE IN THE SAME BOAT.WERE TALKIN ABOUT A AN AIRPLANE THAT WEIGHS MORE THAN YOUR HOUSE, THIS ISNT SOME CESSNA-150.


WHAT KIND OF DOUGH-HEAD ARE YOU?