Fortunately they didn't get the "Blue Screen of Death".
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Posted on 04/24/2006 10:17:12 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
Rebooting Your Airbus (After All The Screens Go Dark)
April 24, 2006
By Russ Niles,
Newswriter, Editor
Cures aside, pilots of Airbus A320-series airliners are getting new guidance on what to do if the screens on their electronically biased aircraft go blank. "Checklists will be streamlined so re-booting of power is quicker," an Airbus spokesman told the London Daily Mirror after Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch released a report on an incident aboard a British Airways A319 last October. The plane was carrying 76 passengers to Budapest from London when most of the electronic displays went blank. The crew was able to bring everything back online in 90 seconds and the passengers were blissfully unaware of the glitch.
The incident brought to light five similar instances on Airbuses. In the October incident, the plane was over southern England when the crew heard an audible "clunk." Five of six screens went out, the intercom and radio failed, the autopilot and autothrottles disengaged and most of the cockpit lights went out. The captain took over the controls and flew night VFR (fortunately it was a clear night) while he and the first officer sorted out the power failure. The flying pilot's task was further complicated by the fact that the backup analog instruments aren't lit. The AAIB has issued a series of safety recommendations but its final report isn't finished yet.
Para espanol, marque numero ocho.
Because there is no group or community of persons with a higher percentage of absolute fools, excepting the Democratic Party.
I might ruffle some feathers, but if it was up to me, most private pilots would be grounded tomorrow. Many of them think its all about their GPS and Jeppeson gear, but without it, most could not find their ass if they looked in their pants.
your forgot:
are you running the european version of windows?
which version are you running?
is this the aibus xp home or pro eddition?
Do you have you airbus cd key available?
Which in this case is a view of the ocean out of the cockpit window.
911 operator: "Are you lyin' to me? You cain't fly no airplane wiff out no tail. You lyin', you in big trubble. Now put a grown-up on, right now! You hear me?"
Fortunately they didn't get the "Blue Screen of Death".
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Mayday, Mayday, I'm going in.
Blue screen of death - for real!
Ruh-Roh.....
Or maybe someone turned on their cell phone and it really did mess up the navigation systems.
-PJ
With apologies to comedian Yakof Smirnov: "In France, you don't crash computer, computer crashes *you*!"
Would you rather the captain on your commercial flight didn't hold a flashlight in his mouth?
Which people are those? The hourly labor charge may be more for an A&P vs. an auto mechanic, which I don't necessarily understand but is a function of market economics, but as far as an absolute amount per operating hour/year of ownership/mile traveled I can't imagine a situation where an aircraft owner would spend less on airplane maintenance than car maintenance. You'd have to find some kind of really skewed comparison, like someone who owned a new C172 with full warranty and was comparing maintenance costs to an antique Ferrari that needed custom-made parts.
lol, like tech support would really ask you all those questions... They just have you format and when you can't find the CD key you will have to call back and have them accuse you of owning and operating a pirated copy of windows. Then when you die they will sue your next of kin and piss on your grave.
"Please press or say your tail number."
"If you're still over 30,000 feet, press or say 3."
"If you're still over 20,000 feet, press or say 2."
"If you're at 10,000 feet, press or say 1."
"If you're under 2000 feet, press or say Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
But of course Iggle is going to take it as a fact even if he can't prove it. It's in his shilling profile.
We all KNOW how infallible Winblows is don't we?
Yes, how appropriate the name AIRBUS! When your bus looses power, or the electrical systems go out!! dont worry, your bus driver will just pull over to the side of the airway amd wait for maintenance to redo the fuel lines or reboot the computers, or replace a tail, or even replace the engines if they happen to fall off, because we french have invented the skyhook, sorta like a bus tow truck in the sky. I fly a Boeing Plane when I fly, not a french bus that has to glide 100 miles because of screwed up fuel lines or a tail that falls off! Thank you Boeing for your superior aircraft.
What an arrogant and dangerous presumption! That A) the avionics will not fail, and B) if they do fail, it will happen in daytime so the analog controls needn't lighting.
"If you are piloting an A320 press 1..."
And someone is right, for the most part. For all the scoffing at the unreliability of electronics, I'd bet that the death toll from pilot error is at least twice as high as the death toll from computer failure. Speaking of old sayings: someday the cockpit will be occupied by only a single pilot and a trained dog. The job of the dog will be to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the controls.
He and his co-pilots were preparing to ditch in the sea, but realised they could aim for a small airstrip on one of the remoter islands in the Azores.
Landed at Lajes Field, a joint military/civilian airfield with a length of 10,600 feet. I was stationed there twice...my friend who is still there sent me some pics of this crash (all tires blew, plane swerved off the side of the runway.)
An amazing landing and I would kiss the pilot had I been on the plane but it was hardly a small airstrip to land in.
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