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To: hunter112
Like we say here in Washington State: "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!"

Uh, I hate to break it to you, but if you fly 757, 767, 777 or the new 787, you will be in an airplane that has the same issues. Remember that 757 that crashed somewhere in South America a few years ago because its hi-tech "glass cockpit" all went dark?

In these new all-electric airplanes, there is no direct connection between the pilot and the engine and pilot and flight control surfaces. It's as though someone thinks that the computer knows how to fly the airplane better than the pilot.

Hi-tech may be wonderful, but we used to have a saying at Boeing: "If it's electric, you can't trust it!"

'Course, that was in the olden days of the 747.

45 posted on 04/24/2006 11:17:54 AM PDT by nightdriver
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To: nightdriver
In these new all-electric airplanes, there is no direct connection between the pilot and the engine and pilot and flight control surfaces. It's as though someone thinks that the computer knows how to fly the airplane better than the pilot.

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.

79 posted on 04/24/2006 2:53:41 PM PDT by Politicalities (http://www.politicalities.com)
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