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Old 27th Mar 2009, 11:46
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porkandbrew - Sounds great, but I was talking about the flight deck seats

A bit off the topic but....
Concerning the "who's flying-fly by wire-conventional ac" discussion all I can say is this.
Modern, fly by wire, aircraft are constructed with built-in protections to deal with human errors, simple as that! Seven flight control computers (A320 series) , and a bunch of other computers, interpret pilot inputs and takes into account, temp, altitude, speed, configuration, weight, AOA, Aicraft Energy (via GS Mini) etc etc and then decides weather or not what you are trying to do is safe or not. The rudder is not protected in the same way however, its max deflection is limited above 160 CAS (if my memory serves me correct?), up to 380-something CAS where max deflection is around 3 degrees....ie you can still f***k up the structure of the aircraft by excessive rudder deflection.

If you are interested in reading more about it then check out smartcockpit.com.....plenty of information on several different aircraft types there....

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