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Old 3rd Dec 2014, 20:02
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Read my last post. That is all about spurious warnings, though chip warnings are a rotary thing really.

Re total data loss.
An aircraft that is designed to have a pilot in the system relies on him to be there.
Any system designed to not have one replaces him with something else. You are not just going to remove him and leave it as it is.
An autonomous system must necessarily have greater redundancy. There is nothing black magic about it.

An Airbus currently has a bunch of inputs. If it cannot work them out it throws up its hands and gives it back to the pilot like in the Air France crash.

An autonomous system would add in more inputs of which any number of current technologies exist and would have bowled out the problem instantly as pitot problems and the passengers would never have even known something happened.

Current airliners have very limited and frankly archaic data sources in many cases.
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