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Old 26th Feb 2013, 21:38
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US Herk
 
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I love all these FBW systems that think they're smarter than pilots!

The Airbus A320 crash comes spectacuarly to mind.

The CV-22 'logic' that will allow you to crash before allowing you to overtorque the engines comes to mind.

I believe first generation C-130J software wouldn't let you re-start the aircraft after shutdown if ANY limit had been exceeded until data was downloaded to maintenance computer (not useful for an aircraft that does occasionally land places you don't want to stay).

And others I can't think of just now...

Humans make mistakes. Computers only prevent mistakes their human programmers thought of.
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