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Re:Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe by dTal on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:53AM (#19510681)
>Angle of attack for example can be approximated with an accelerometer and gyro

I'm prepared to be wrong but that sounds impossible to me. A steady-state descending stall is inertially indistinguishable from cruise.

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Re:Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe by londons_explore on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:31PM (#19516848)
You're right - you need to combine with altimeter or GPS, and for more accuracy you can also combine with wind direction forecasts or airspeed measurements.

The point is, there are lots of data sources, and with even a subset of them, it's possible to fly the plane to a safe landing.

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