TurbineD
I am surprised. I know you are an engineer, so I am surprised. What I call the Thales is irrelevant, and for purposes of pragmatic discussion, the Pitots fit to this a/c were in fact junk. Insufficient performance? Eccentric behaviour in some frequently encountered flight envelopes that crashed autoflight in commercial carriage? That is somehow excusable? A legacy carrier is faced with a mutiny when critical personnel refuse to fly with it attached to their a/c?
I am over the top? A very low Top, I would say. At no time have I advocated for a competitor of Thales, ever, nor would I. The salient discussion involves equipment that could not perform that may have directly caused the deaths of many people?
Now this may not be true, and the marketplace is a brutal arena where rumor can kill a product. However, the shortcomings of this device were known, PATENT, and disregarded.
BA038 is precisely the example I wish to portray. It frames the nonsense involved in the drama of manicuring a platform for continued suitability (and profitability) in the market.
you said:
"...Until such time someone develops a test cell to create an air speed of mach 0.83-0.86, identifies the geometric makeup and size of ice crystals at 30K-40K altitudes along with the ability to inject supercooled water into the equation, we will not have the "eutopia" you seemingly are looking for in terms of pitot tube 99.99% reliability..." This is exactly what Boeing and Rolls did in Renton re: BA038. Apples and Pumpkins?
Air France R&Red the Thales, and the pilots kept flying. I vote with the Pilots, here; the engineers lost their voice?
While we're at it, let's look at the Laws between Normal and Direct. They are all some step children of Normal, and require pilots to adopt a computer like mode of problem solving, instead of trained in and immediately available skill sets. If any time until the day I die, I hear the horn, or feel the shaker, I could be fast asleep, I will push. THIS fbw does not respect the ultimate failure, it gives itself a built in excuse, "It did everything it was supposed to do".
Except butt out?
much respect, TD