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Old 13th Dec 2010, 20:51
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Originally Posted by Safety Concerns
All Airbus FBW aircraft can be reduced back down to manual flying very easily. Not ideal though because the protections are there in the first place because you lot kept crashing.
If it was true it would show up immensely in the statistics ... is it the case ?

Beside that, what is manual flying if not FBW ... Please explain.
Do you think protections disappear when AP is selected OFF ... you have some reading to do here.

FBW is not the issue, protections are the concern.

Originally Posted by DC-ATE
Why can't you young computer controled airline pilots admit that the manufacturers are trying to design you out of the aircraft completely with all this new "technology" that you speak so highly of?
THAT is the key point.
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