Re:What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Au...
by foldr on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:19AM
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>I bet if all the screens switched from white-on-black to black-on-white when going into alternate law (or something more night-vision friendly) there would have been no doubt and there would have been no incident.
You're talking about two pilots who couldn't figure out that the plane was stalled even though it was descending rapidly with a nose up attitude. There's not much that UX can do to compensate for that level of incompetence. Holding the stick back in that situation would never be appropriate, regardless of which control law applied.
>The other problem was that the captain and first-officer were inputting conflicting control inputs and didn't know it.
This is a persistent myth about this accident. See e.g. the following post:
You're talking about two pilots who couldn't figure out that the plane was stalled even though it was descending rapidly with a nose up attitude. There's not much that UX can do to compensate for that level of incompetence. Holding the stick back in that situation would never be appropriate, regardless of which control law applied.
>The other problem was that the captain and first-officer were inputting conflicting control inputs and didn't know it.
This is a persistent myth about this accident. See e.g. the following post:
http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=772033&start=...