Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447
by Too on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:48AM
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I guess it could be a cheap workaround to always get smooth transitions when changing pilot. Imagine if one pilot holds full left and the other full right and you press a "switch now!"-button. You would need some kind of transition-period of maybe a second to avoid jerk which could be confusing for the pilot to not know when he has full control and when he is in transition.
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Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447
by andrewmccall on Thursday December 08, 2011 @05:41AM
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This is likely the reason, and probably not just as a cheap work around, in most day to day situations it's probably the desired effect since both sticks are independent and don't move in reaction to the other.
Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447
by delackner on Monday December 12, 2011 @12:48AM
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Actually if both sticks are actually linked, the person taking over will find his stick already full-left, and have to actually pull it over to the right as part of "taking over". Such simplicity and it would result in none of this insanity.