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Old 27th May 2011, 20:10
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GarageYears
 
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I guess I have difficulty understanding why the software would find 3.5 minutes of maximum nose-up for the THS perfectly acceptable while all other inputs were going to hell in a hand basket. Was the processor too busy with other interrupts to check the THS or was this combination of input anomalies not part of the decision tree?
So presumably you'd have preferred the software to decide this wasn't allowed and roll off the trim - despite the input from the pilot demanding nose up? You really can't have it both ways now, can you? On the one hand half the crowd here are screaming for the head(s) of the software programing team for removing so much 'authority' from the crew, and here we have a request for the software to "decide" that the crew demand was unhealthy - even if it *was* unhealthy, are you sure you want additional laws and protections? Given that the aircraft has an auto-trim system, it appears to have been operating as expected, given the commands from the crew?
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