Hi ChristiaanJ,
[quote=ChristiaanJ]
Originally Posted by roulishollandais
Originally Posted by
roulishollandais 
The ATEC Series 6 testbench is a very bad choice who does the pilots blind.
I don't quite get your point....
An ATEC is a huge computer-controlled automatic test bench, used for initial reception of the equipment, and for testing and fault-finding of equipment "thrown off the aircraft as suspect".
I think most pilots have never even seen one......
Testing software or equipment is a very strategic action. ATEC is a good choice for EADS... If something is wrong or missing in ATEC it is the whole responsability if something gets wrong or missing in an EADS aircraft. But, seeing the ATEC advert. it seems to be an commercial product, that B could use too and B will then not be able to see something will get wrong or false in his aircraft or equipment...
Originally Posted by ChristiaanJ
I agree, but that's not the same context....
The flight engiener is no more in the aircraft. If some hydraulic or electric failure happens caution or warning light and call happen, and a check-list is used. If a software failure happens, nobody knows it in the airplane : the pilots are blinds, get unmotivated, and have behaviour like in AF447.
They get idiots.
Originally Posted by ChristiaanJ
2000 pages (ours were a bit smaller)
2000 pages of Basic : nice to write them, but too big to extract anything useful of such a FBW system for the pilot when things get crazy.
Before beeing a pilot, I had to organize computer math methods and software in a national research center. After that and due testing, the software was given to twelve regional centers. Some of these softwares concerned human life (dikes). They were running three years (you read well) at the same time that traditional method, without any difference in the results, and without changing anything in the software...