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Re:What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Au... by MockObject on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:06AM (#19368826)
> In Air France 333, the pitot static tube, which measure airspeed, was jammed by ice.

In such a case, all of your 10k sensors would have been iced.

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Re:What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Au... by iSnow on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:06AM (#19388827)
But they would not go down all at once like one or two sensors. As they would be spread across the plane, the system would "feel" it is losing sensors and be "aware" of it.

It would know when to invalidate sensor input and tell the pilot about it. With a mix of Pitot and other sensors, it would be even more precisely able to know when to stop trusting the sensors. This is something that is currently lacking.

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