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Old 24th May 2023 | 04:29
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megan
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North Carolina hydraulic fluid incident was truly a software glitch in the warning light system
Ward Carroll who was involved in the program at the time gave a safety lecture reinforced the message to know your aircraft systems, apparently the mishap was caused by the pilot cancelling the warning (eight times), had he left the caution on a safe approach and landing could have been made.The test pilot kept resetting his master reset & eventually bled all his hydraulics away. The computer analyzes & contains hydraulic leaks through a protocol, but when the master reset is initiated, it assumes all is well & must run through the protocol again.

Anything like the V-22 I'd imagine would have to be certified to continue to an airport for a safe landing, autorotation is not possible with ROD's in the 15 to 20,000 FPM range (quote from the lecture), nor was the ability to autorotate part of the design brief..
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