Originally Posted by marciovp
"...(People forget that the 777 and the coming 787 are using almost the same advanced automation technology as Airbus)"
Is that so?
In general terms, yes. And the companies providing some of the automation do so to both airframe manufacturers. However, the architectures of many of the systems are different. Cary Spitzer's book, Digital Avionics Systems: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edn., McGraw-Hill 1993, talks about the overall architectures of the A320 and the B777 FCSs in Chapter 7.
PBL