Air Canada A320 loss of control in flight: 14/4/09

[guiones]

Tree:
You did not answer, is your experience on Airbus FBW, and please as you say for safety's sake; share with us the problems YOU have experiencenced on Airbus FBW.

G

[grizzled]

"So does this mean the AB bashing is finished?"

Now that's funny!

The bookies will give you the same odds on that as they will on a comet wiping out civilisation in the next 12 months.

Airbus bashing -- and the airbus v/s boeing debate -- will not end 'til the comet hits.

[fc101]

Servus ! :

The cables on the 777 are not driven by computers. There are cables from the flight deck to the stabilizer and to Spoiler #4 and #11. With the cables you are able to keep the AC straight and level until you have re-established electrical power

Actually didn't know that specific fact about the 777...however the 777 is effectively flown by computer, in that, AFAIK, it is considered a FBW aircraft. In this sense the A320 is similar in that the vert stabiliser is similarly controlled (AFAIU*)

Basically, what I'm referring to is that very early on in this discussion someone was already spoiling for an AvB argument with the response: Airbus bad, Boeing good....for no other reason than dogma :-) I'd just been given an AvB lecture by a similarly knowledged person and so wasn't in the best mood at the time as far as I remember...

I think I'll wait for the aforementioned comet to hit...

MODS: can we have a generic AvB post here somewhere to save space that we can all reference when these moments it?

*I'm not an A320 driver, yet! So go easy...

fc101
E145 Driver

[Wirelock]

think that would be the trimmable horizontal stabilizer that you mean. this and the landing gear cable are the 2 on the 320

[TyroPicard]

Don't forget the rudder ("vert stabiliser"?) cables...