Originally Posted by
Mac the Knife
I know that I'm wrong and not a pilot and all that, but the image comes to mind of a car with two separate power-steering wheels and no feedback between the two.
Mac, there have been saves due to them not interconnected too, the score is neutral.
Staying inside your analogy (which is somewhat offset): the backup driver sees a collision coming but fails to realize that is a result of wrong yet deliberate actions of the leading one, and thus the idea of taking over does not enter his mind at all. That's what I alluded to. And my beef is that the mitigation techniques have not been executed far and wide. AF447 and the AirAsia could have been saved with a a small yet decent probability.