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Originally Posted by TTex600 View Post
It's an old joke, but too many Airbus pilots laugh for it to not contain some truth.
Two of the deadliest early mode-confusion crashes relating to automation actually occurred in an L-1011 and a B757. It's far from an Airbus-only problem and always has been.
Again.
I like the airplane , I like the sidesticks(there is no reason nowadays to keep the column in front of you for 12 hours to use it for 5 minutes) , I love the table, just think like a lot of airbus pilots sidesticks should be conected.
In a smaller scale we feel that , when the FO is approaching.We only know what he is thinking and doing after he has already done.With a column or conected sticks we would be able to correct his actions in an earlier stage.I have almost 10 years flying airbus , but I have been flying for 24, so I have bases to compare.
Just that , as simple as that.
Regarding the surprises from the airplane . I had some in the begining like everyone , but not from long ago.
If it happens?? Well two golden rules os airbus state that :
The airplane can be flown like any other airplane
When things don`t go as expected , take over.
Simple.
TTex600,
There were lots of accidents in the aviation history which were atributed to pilot errors and their failure to act as expected.This is just another one.
But it`s also true that through out all these years , the industry has made changes in the new designs to minimize the chance of pilots doing the same mistakes again.Airbus just implemented the BUSS.And I keep thinking that doing something so simple as conecting the sidesticks would be one of them.Despite I`m very used to it.
I completely disagree when you said the pitots were not one of the factors contributing to the accident. They were the first one in the chain.Why? Because they were designed by humans ,and those who designed it didn`t do it properly, the same way the human pilots didn`t perform properly after the pitots got iced.
And this is so true that Airbus recomended operators to change them even before the accident.