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Old 24th Mar 2019, 09:02
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Originally Posted by jimjim1
This is not correct. The error detection is a simple parity bit and so a bus error is not vanishingly unlikely.

ARINC 429 is pretty crude in the age of the interwebby
Can you verify this? This would be very crude early 1970th technology and with a Haming distance of 1 only protect against single bit failures. A two bit failure would create the next valid data. And there is no guarantee that any interference will only disturb 1 bit. Equaly likely is, that a sequence of bits are disturbed.
I still wonder where the 20 degrees constant offset in the Lion Air AOA sensor came from. See preliminary report. That’s not a stuck sensor.
If the Ethiopian will show a similar offset then there is another problem burried in their flight control system.


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