Originally Posted by
Gretchenfrage
Today it seems that there is an almost Orwellian shift. The Master has become the Servant. Humans are forced to adapt to his masters programming and to cover the deficiencies of automation, but at the same time giving up some of their authority.
I'll give you that if you can tell me at what point the aircraft and it's systems did *anything* other than what the men at the controls told it to do.
@mm43 : On the contrary, I'm quite happy to be proved wrong - my only concern is that the supposition is coming from someone who has stated on several occasions that he does not believe the Airbus FBW system will be safe until the sticks are interconnected and back-driven by the computer.