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Old 24th Feb 2016, 08:14
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Uplinker
 
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What would be a better attention getter?
Can't remember where I originally posted my idea but by putting a vibrating element similar to those found in cellphones into the top of the Airbus side-stick, where that oval thumb rest panel is. Drive the vibrating element from the "stall stall" logic and hey presto, you have a haptic stall warning in the form of a vibrating side-stick.

And so simple to engineer, it could probably be retro fitted to all Airbuses, (assuming successful flight trials and certification, obviously).

I thought about a patent but decided to give this out free in the interests of increased safety and to make it more likely to be put into practice - we don't ever want another AF447.
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