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Old 1st Oct 2007, 16:00
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Originally Posted by DozyWannabe
The only time they'll ever override a pilot input is if the pilot tries to violate the envelope protection, which I'm sure you'll agree is undesirable. Otherwise the computer will happily do whatever the pilot tells it to.
Surely that's just not so in this particular case, DW? The pilot told this computer to deploy the ground spoilers and activate the autobrakes on touchdown?

It didn't.
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