I have never flown anything as complex as a fly by wire system, but!
I do wonder! Can someone give me the answer to this question:
Does Air Bus acknowledge that its machinery is flown by PILOTS, or are they SYSTEM MONITORS:
Authorities and some Air Lines have now recognized the very real threat that their PILOTS have lost their basic airman-ship flying skills, which is what alot of people in the industry, along with myself, have seen happening for the last twenty years:
I have reed the report on AF 447: (Talk about a shinning example of CRM, & Leadership)
In my opinion the system can have all the bells and whistles, and colored lights, nice female voices, & coffee on tap! but give the PILOTS, the means to IMMEDIATELY BE ABLE TO PUSH A BIG RED BUTTON:
But if it goes pear shaped at 500 ft on take off in hard IMC, and you have to analyze, recognize, then shut down the ADR's, is in my opinion a big ask, of any crew:
In my opinion A/B is ignorant of HUMAN FACTORS:
Now I will twaddle off into my Twin Otter office with 8 sectors, and all my manual flying:
Chr's
H/Snort
PS: exercise for you all, trawl through all this guff from the first posting, and read and sit back and think about what you are discussing! it is quite disturbing:
Let the clubbing and beatings commence:
