Re:How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Devel...
by cjbprime on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:54PM
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Isn't Airbus's a stick pusher, though? i.e. it puts force on the stick that is hard to overpower but can be overpowered, so the pilot is still the control authority?
That's extremely different to a system that silently severely mistrims you, then tells you to disable your ability to trim electrically before you can fix the mistrim, as if that even makes sense, all while overpowering the yoke with aerodynamic load.
For the record, Airbus's three sensors haven't prevented crashes completely. Here's one where two sensors were damaged, causing the correct sensor to be treated as erroneous and lose the quorum vote:
That's extremely different to a system that silently severely mistrims you, then tells you to disable your ability to trim electrically before you can fix the mistrim, as if that even makes sense, all while overpowering the yoke with aerodynamic load.
For the record, Airbus's three sensors haven't prevented crashes completely. Here's one where two sensors were damaged, causing the correct sensor to be treated as erroneous and lose the quorum vote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XL_Airways_Germany_Flight_888T