Originally Posted by
hec7or
Well, in the Boeing v Airbus debate, I don't think that the great loss of life which occurred on AF447 could have happened on a Boeing because of lessons learned during the B47 to B52 evolution in the late 50s. Boeing realised that after the B47 had lost a few airframes due to some high G overstress incidents and subsequent loss of control in flight, that because the P1 and P2 in the B47 were seated in tandem, they could not see what each other were doing and that this was clearly not a good idea, so the B52 as a result of this had the pilots seated side by side and both had a big control column in between his/her legs to avoid any misunderstandings.
On AF447, the Pilot Monitoring did not know why the flight instruments were giving conflicting information because he had no idea that his colleague was holding the aircraft into a stall as he couldn't see the position of his colleague's sidestick and when he tried to push forward he didn't at first have control authority whereas on a Boeing, one pilot can override the other by brute force.
My view is that, overall. Boeing products when compared to Airbus are pretty sound.
Fairly certain I have posted this before, so,
with apologies:
I took my 13 y/o up6 or seven years ago in a c150. We flew around for a few minutes. She figured on a place 50 nm away she wanted to go. She started screwing around with altitude, and stalled the aircraft. She realized that a recovery involved lowering the nose, and did so.
she was back on track within 5 minutes without significant input from me.
Better than some have done…