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Old 13th Mar 2019, 22:10
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Originally Posted by Vilters
The most fragile things in the whole system are the sensors that are always exposed to the outside world.
In most cases, it is a sensor breaking up, or feeding wrong information to the pilots/systems.We absolutely need more and better quality control (and back-up's) for the sensors.
Static, dynamic, AOA, all of them.
You need an A350: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus...512991673).jpg

Its all very well having dozens of sensors, but the flight systems must be able to interpret them.
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