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Old 5th Jul 2011, 00:08
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A33Zab
 
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Automation

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..
Stick left or right will do it for A. or like any other brand let AP handle this. Already in the 70's you were flying 'Fooled' by Wire and once they remove your 'beloved' yoke and the cable loop which drives it and suddenly it is not worth to call it an airplane?

The brand with the yoke uses the same philosophy on FBW, they fitted some other stuff to keep you guys satisfied and used different naming but have also mode degradation, ADIRU's and Flight Control Computers and a lot of warnings and bells.

Where is the evidence it did not?
Because only AP or P(N)F can do that, if a remote! Failure in a FCPC would do that it would be rewarded with an outvoting and an ECAM message.

BEA:
"The thrust levers were positioned in the TO/GA detent and the PF maintained nose-up inputs."

On the T/L and SS only multiple resolvers (which can't drive the T/L or SS), the only input is by hand (or other object)

If automation can bring one to outer space and back, automation can bring you also from A. to B. and (for the skeptic) from B. to A.
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