Originally Posted by
Gretchenfrage
... in the early 90ies with the advent of the MD11 and A330, has to do with a unexpected rise of accidents in airliners lately with loss of speed and subsequently loss of control.
Including the Birgenair B757 and WCA MD-82, both of which have round-dial analogue airspeed gauges, if I'm not mistaken.
FGD's summaries are of papers (one of which was a commercial study for Boeing in 1985) - *not* scientific studies. As such, of course it's possible that those papers would have an inherent bias towards the round dials, if that was what the author of the paper was trying to prove. In fact a significant number of those quotations come from a paper I linked to, and I've already said that the particular paper doers not seem to be scientific or sufficiently rigorous. Much of it does indeed read like an opinion piece.