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Well, re: simulators and flight tests
Although it would be interesting to see if anyone tried out an inadvertant MCAS operation at 300 kts at 10,000 ft, to see what would happen.
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We just had the inadvertant MCAS "test" it was called JT610
Unless the sims have actual hardwired or mux bus connections/interfaces between black boxes and simulated sensors, they are not very useful for MCAS training when malfunctions happen
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I would not trust sim if it "emulated" all the boxes, signals and interfaces in on big computer program. Sure, you could have many components in the configuration that were not actual AoA vanes or pitot tubes or free air temp sensors and so forth. The biggie is how all the components work together physically and electronically exactly as in the criterion system. For example, in the new military systems, the actual fire control computer and multiplex bus are not simulated, they are the real thing! The subsystems hanging on the bus or buses might be a "simulation" of the real deal, and can even be dumb boxes or "rheostats/volume controls/tuning knobs". The main thing is to use the actual interfaces/connections in the architecture. If the subsystem has software to process a signal from a sensor, then it should have the identical code as the real deal.
Jez saying, having flown cosmic sims since 1971.
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