Originally Posted by MWR
No need for mechanicall movement to keep PNF aware of the control inputs, a vector display would work well. Lenght and direction of vector (line from a central "0" dot) would show the inputs.
mm43 made also a kind of similar proposal … but No please !
Not another PFD item you need to concentrate on and add to the scanning - soon we'll need 5 pairs of eyes to collect all those direct visual targets ...
Originally Posted by Lazerdog
Have not seen much mention if any of whether altimeter data was available. It appears to me from looking at the releases that it should have been there, and would have been unreeling downward and would have been part of the instrument cross-check.
That’s a good point. The BEA note mentions a few altitudes but the source is not specified and neither if all recorded altitude data were consistent …
Originally Posted by JD-EE
He was apparently sitting on the right hand side and the RHS sensors were not recorded the way Air France had the FDR setup.
Question : Is the FDR settable at the airline request ?
On the media side, above all the news media
formates … must be a reason why newspapers are in free distribution at airports.
Originally Posted by DozyWannabe
Airbus aircraft do retain a degree of artificial feel to allow the pilot to know what the *aircraft* is doing, but what CONF and the others are banging on about is the fact that on the Airbus you can't directly feel what the other *pilot* is doing.
Do I have ever said anything like it … Please quote !
MWS has well tried to explain but you don’t seem to hear …