"Scott Ritchey" <ritche...@nc.rr.com> writes: > It is well known that I love Boeings. I love to fly them. Beyond the > sheer joy of just flying the Boeing, I also believe in their design > philosophy that the last word has to be with the pilot, not the > machine. No pilot, no matter how hard he tries, can turn an A-320 > upside down. It just won't do it. Airbus believes it has designed a > computer that is smarter than a pilot (the evidence of dead bodies > scattered around Mulhouse, France to the contrary) and gives the last > word to the computer. If a pilot moves the controls so as to turn the > airplane upside down, the computer will refuse.
This is not really unique to the Airbus -- for example we've long had "stick shakers" that prevent the pilot from putting the aircraft into an unrecoverable stall -- probably other similar devices as well -- the idea of preventing the pilot from doing something stupid is not new to the Airbus. Just a comment really -- I distrust anything completely controlled by software with no manual override capability, and I'm not disagreeing with the claim that the Airbus flight control system gives "too much" authority to the computer. But the idea of mechanical or software intervention to prevent pilot error is not new to the A320. Final disclaimer, I'm not a pilot of any type just an observer from the peanut gallery. Allan -- 1983 300D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
