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Re:Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 ... by mlyle on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:33PM (#21094872)
Better avoid Airbus, then, because there's a massive control law between the pilots and the actuators to create a "do what I mean" interface with envelope protection and all kinds of characteristics tamed.

https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Flight_Control_Laws#Norm...

Boeing has mostly avoided that. MCAS is kind of an unusual form of control augmentation as far as Boeing is concerned.

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Re:Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 ... by jakeogh on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:43PM (#21094998)
Thanks. I couldnt agree more. It would make sense if the bar was higher for adding control software than training pilots. To me it seems like the type cert problem was backwards.
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Re:Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 ... by mlyle on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:53PM (#21095121)
In fairness, we've added a whole lot of automation since 1970, and most people think that increased automation has been a key factor in why aviation is so much safer overall. (Along with crew resource management).

Automation definitely has directly killed people, though, too.

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