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If there's a case to change it, they will. It wouldn't have been the programmers making that call in any case, it would have been the aeronautical engineers and the test pilots*. Even the best and most experienced of us codemonkeys have to stick to the specification we're given. A good software engineer will tell you how to implement a specification in the best way, but they can't change the spec themselves.
I suspect that even with a conventional airliner, the engineers would push back on changing a behaviour that manifested itself outside of the operational limits - those limits are there for a reason after all.
[* Just to reiterate the point in general - Software Engineers do not define the limits within a FBW control system. That is the remit of the aero engineers and test pilots. ]
Last edited by DozyWannabe; 11th May 2012 at 23:18.