Originally Posted by DW
Again, gums, where is the evidence that the flight computers did anything they were not commanded to by the handling pilot? The whole point of the graceful degradation in laws is that the guy in the seat notices as little difference in how he was handling the aircraft before compared to how the aircraft handles if something has gone south as possible!
- may I (as an aeronautically trained engineer, of course...) ask you
Where is the
evidence it did not? and
is not the second part of your para the whole nub of the accident? They would 'appear' not to have noticed.
Machinbird - yes, let's put even more electronics and gizmos in the loop to go wrong.
Look! We can have a whole extra page of ECAMS, bells, whoops and God knows what. What gums and I and a few others want to see is a stick that just moves the ailerons, and pilots who can use it..