BOAC
a) Going to notice
b) Going to understand
c) Do the right thing.
No new chimes, no new nuthin. 'Display the results from each Pitot head'* and let the pilot consider turbulence, Windshear, P-Heat, etc. for the cause of the discrepancies.
447 did NOT have a redundant air sampling system. It was repetitive, not redundant, there is a major blunder in merging data from three sources that use the same equipment in three different locations. Using different models would only be partially better. If all the computer is doing is averaging within parameters, that isn't Ai at all, it is not even modern computing.
Would you be happy with a common N1? An average heading? Listening to two radios on different freqs?
* displaying separate results to the pilots as well as the computer is redundancy.
Last edited by Lyman; 7th September 2012 at 12:49.