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Old 3rd Jun 2001, 08:14
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Gee, it's worse than I thought.

I thought the AOA was being misculated because of the conflicting wind inputs and pilot responses, but now I see the computer made a more fundamental logic error. If sumation of the pilot inputs would have pitched the airplane above AOA Max, then why not just sum the inputs to the value of Alpha Max? I suppose that it might not have occurred to the software engineers that in an emergency, both pilots might pull back on their respective joysticks at the same time. Pitching up to Alpha Max is still safe, while not pitching up at all could be deadly.

Gee whiz...