Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
Thank you. So there are none of the more exotic flight modes that seem to cause so much confusion "occasionally"on the Airbus ? My understanding was that Embraer followed the Boeing model.
There are two modes: Normal mode, where the Flight Control Modules process the flight control inputs and provides the processed inputs to the Actuator Control Electronics.
And then there is Direct mode, where the FCM's are left out of the equation and the flight control inputs are send unprocessed to the ACE's