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To: Spktyr

Not allowing to override the computer? That's a flying deathtrap!

I'll stick with Boeing as well.


16 posted on 03/07/2005 5:17:38 PM PST by wk4bush2004
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To: wk4bush2004

Nope. The Airbus design philosophy is "pilots are all idiots, and we know better than the man in the seat does." The flight envelope is preprogrammed, the control limits are hardcoded and do not include allowances for hard evasive manuvers. There is no override, there are no manual controls, if the computer goes out the plane falls out of the sky.

The Gimli Glider would not have been the amazing event that it ended up being if it had been an AIrbus.


19 posted on 03/07/2005 5:22:41 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: wk4bush2004
Not allowing to override the computer? That's a flying deathtrap!

That's nonsense. Do you want to override the antilock brakes on your car, too? The Airbus is a completely fly-by-wire design, as is the Boeing 777. The Boeing design will let the pilots place the aircraft into an unrecoverable stall, while the Airbus system will let the pilots go right up to the limit but no further. Which is better? Depends on the programming, I suppose, but I don't disable the antilock brakes on my car because I think I know better than the car's computer how hard to stomp on the brakes in an emergency.

Now, that being said, I'll stick with Boeing, too. Just not for this reason.

163 posted on 03/08/2005 8:08:27 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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