How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control

Re:How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control by 1stranger on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:54PM (#18767416)

Would it be possible to have a single switch that disables all automatic systems and puts the plane in complete manual control as much as possible? Can these planes even operate in a complete manual mode?

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Re:How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control by drpixie on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:59AM (#18768613)

Certainly possible but not required. In the B737 family, most of the main controls are essentially power assisted direct controls.

Boeing consistently has preferred more-or-less manual controls, while Airbus took the other direction (in which the pilot guides the computer, which operates the controls).

All airlines can fly happily in completely "manual" mode. Boeings are doing this most of the time, Airbus's only do this when the situation is outside the computer's envelope.

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Re:How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control by ReptileMan on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:00AM (#18768392)

Fly by wire. So no. Though Boing I think have law of control at - you better know what and why are doing buddy - level.

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