On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:51:18 -0400 (EDT), Henry Spencer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Note, by the way, that with plentiful engines, you can essentially get rid
>of an engine failure at the next throttling point. With a bit of smarts
>in the steering, you can pick which engines you cut off more or less
>arbitrarily, so long as the result remains symmetrical and reasonably well
>distributed. So if you have (say) eight engines and one dies, you cope
>with that as necessary at the time (throttle up others, possibly cut the
>corresponding engine on the other side)... but you also revise the
>throttling pattern on the fly so *that* engine is one of the ones slated
>to be off after the next throttling point. After that throttling point,
>you're back to normal engine operation again.
Software guys come in two flavors, as in any other (a)vocation:
pessimists and optimists. The pessimists say, "How does he expect us
to do that?" I'm picturing ERPS' software guys as I'm reading the
above, and I hear them saying, "Hey, yeah. Hey, that's going to be
fun." :-)
-R
--
"Sutton is the beginning of wisdom -
but only the beginning."
-- Jeff Greason
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