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Old 7th Jan 2015, 04:55
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Love it or hate it Airbus FBW is a different philosophy. The aircraft is designed with almost complete automation and very little requirements of raw piloting skills in mind. Perhaps it came before its time. I have said it before that the protection were designed to prevent the pilot from going beyond the flight envelope and it does a damn good job of it. What was perhaps not taken into consideration was that in a dynamic medium such as the air the aircraft could be pushed beyond those boundaries without any pilot action and that is where the design is found wanting. All these protections are triggered from data derived from one sensor or the other but the present system of sifting the data to ensure it's genuineness is being proved inadequate and is the cause of all these incidents. The answer to this will come from better sensors, better system of confirmation of data or even quantum leap of technology in measurement of airspeed, AoA etc. but definitely not from cables and vacuum gauges. Surely few automobile accidents are not going to bring back horse buggies. Direct law is short term condition from gear down to landing. It may not be vastly different from 737 but since you cannot practice it on line it is not your day to day experience so you are better off in alternate law which is almost similar to every day normal law minus the offending protections.
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