A330 Flight Test Crash
It's been a long time since I read about that one in Aviation Leak (week), but wasn't stall protection disabled in Flight Level Change mode, or whatever it was called? What kind of a design problem was that? How deep into the software was that hidden?
As you all must know better than me, the A-320 Air Inter was a failure called modality: the same knob selected glide path angle in degrees and tenths, or rate of descent in thousands and hundreds. Did a real pilot design these things?
Like an old 727 driver told me, "Sometimes I WANT to hurt that airplane, if that will save it."
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