Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: RFEngineer
LOL, well you can trust what you will. I will fly on them, I don't have much choice, do I? Direct mechanical control of the surfaces is not such an outdated idea as you may believe. My engineering background is rooted in the idea that if something can fail, it will, and there had better be backup. God help us all if it's Windows driving the control surfaces. We might have a WGA error in midflight, directing us to contact Microsoft for a genuine copy of Windows. We might have an update problem. Your plane is now operating in reduced functionality mode. Please contact Microsoft to unlock the tail surfaces.

Seriously, I still don't trust them. Not without a backup.

20 posted on 02/26/2008 6:39:42 PM PST by Sender (Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]


To: Sender

“Seriously, I still don’t trust them. Not without a backup.”

THey have backup....and backups to the backup, and backups to that....


22 posted on 02/26/2008 7:14:23 PM PST by RFEngineer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson