> >Airbus > >has had its share of problems with 'smart' FCS, though. I still remember the > >video of that Airbus (A-300?) inaugural flight that plowed a section of forest > >when trying to takeoff after a low-speed pass over the runway, when the FCS > >insisted that the aircraft was landing and could not command the engines to > >takeoff thrust. > > Wrong. It was an A320 where the display pilot (some time after > 'first flight') switched off major protective modes of the FCS. > He did this to show that he could fly the A320 'party trick' of > a low, slow, high alpha pass with safety (due to FCS protection) > manually. He couldn't
I didn't mean to say "takeoff" as if they had landed or done a touch and go. I had read a paper that stated something along the lines that they were (in order to fly slow) in the landing configuration. Due to being in the landing configuration there was some flight control system rule that looked at some parameter (flap position, gear position, altitude, alpha or some combination of values of those parameters) and precluded the engines from responding to the throttle command as desired. I've gotten this story from a few people, too. If your version is right, I would say this is pilot error (or arrogance). The story as related to me suggests a design flaw (IMHO). Jon _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
