Salute!
@ Silver and Old......
Back when the Earth was still cooling our "archaic" fully electronic FBW system in the Viper had 4 computers and 4 piezzo doofers to sense our pitch and roll commands. The logic was to keep one computer as a spare and use three computers to blend the two AoA cones and the pneumatic hemisperical probe pressures plus two sideslip/static ports. If we got to only two computers the general rule was to use the most benign value, and this could be implemented easily on the MAX, huh?
Our only problem happened when the fault detection system failed, so we had a few prangs when the system used the dead computer and controls went to neutral ! Wahooo! 22 negative gees, but two outta first three troops made it out. Needless to say, we changed the logic and also improved the power supplies to the computers.
Gums sends...