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Old 26th Jul 2018, 07:25
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Which leads to the future of fully automated aircraft, how would an fully automated aircraft deal with these sorts of scenario's?
Any full automation worth it's salt would have done a 'reasonableness' check on airspeed (e.g. cross compared with ground speed changes) and aborted the takeoff by 80 knots.
It may surprise you, but the engineers who design this stuff are not idiots...
Bad air data is actually one of the easier design cases for full automation - there are multiple sources, cross compared with each other and GPS - determining which sensor(s) are wrong is usually fairly easy. Plugged Pitot ports are especially easily detected during takeoff since it messes so dramatically with airspeed. Plugged static ports are a much tougher problem since that won't change appreciably during a TO roll and would only become apparent once airborne.
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