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Old 17th Mar 2019, 23:10
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Originally Posted by sky9
A/P autoland needs three a/p channels, why isn't the same criteria used for the AOA indicators? What they really need is 4 AOA vanes so they can dispatch with one unserviceable.

But then using software to correct an inherently unstable design at the extreme of its envelope shows how far the industry has gone away from safety first.
there are only 2 channels on a 73
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