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Forum: Tech Log

17th May 2011, 20:01

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

Graybeard - true, but there's nothing stopping a...

Graybeard - true, but there's nothing stopping a pilot simply adding the sidestick/throttle position indicator to the scan - in fact the positioning of those gauges is designed to make it easy.
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Forum: Tech Log

17th May 2011, 11:19

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

I'm talking about the B777 though, which is not a...

I'm talking about the B777 though, which is not a "conventional aircraft" as much as it is a computer simulation of one that happens to be built into an airframe.

Anyway - you don't *need* to...

Forum: Tech Log

16th May 2011, 15:23

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

Graybeard: I'm not dismissing backdrive at...

Graybeard:

I'm not dismissing backdrive at all! I'm simply saying that in engineering terms there are cases for, and cases against. Airbus chose one way (visual feedback on the pilot-commanded...

Forum: Tech Log

16th May 2011, 11:54

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

How so? They've wired up the sidesticks...

How so? They've wired up the sidesticks backwards before, and I maintain that the fact that the sidesticks aren't backdriven was one of the reasons it was possible to save the aircraft. Now, I'm...

Forum: Tech Log

15th May 2011, 17:45

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

I like to think I've earned enough karma on this...

I like to think I've earned enough karma on this board over the years to get away with a tongue-in-cheek facetious comment. Whether people want to think of me as smart or otherwise doesn't really...

Forum: Tech Log

15th May 2011, 15:38

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

nitpicker330 : But (as I said earlier) what if...

nitpicker330 : But (as I said earlier) what if the backdriven sticks/yokes are inadvertently cross-wired, or wired in reverse? Then you have a force-feedback system working against you, and it would...

Forum: Tech Log

10th May 2011, 10:25

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

IMO the AA965 Cali accident (widely considered as...

IMO the AA965 Cali accident (widely considered as part of the "What's it doing now?" category) was practically identical, though in that case it was the pilots that entered the wrong co-ordinates,...

Forum: Tech Log

10th May 2011, 09:27

Replies: 90

If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

Let's be fair though, Douglas were responsible...

Let's be fair though, Douglas were responsible for one of the biggest airliner design SNAFUs in history (DC-10 cargo door/cabin floor failure), and then got caught with their pants down trying to...

Forum: Tech Log

8th May 2011, 14:16

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

He or she is in the A320+ series too... ...

He or she is in the A320+ series too...

Honest question here - what do you think the protections are and when do you think they kick in?

If something's gone wrong with the system (IMO...

Forum: Tech Log

7th May 2011, 17:12

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If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

I want to be careful not to drag things...

I want to be careful not to drag things off-topic, so I think I'm going to limit myself to one reply here...

Possibly, but I'm talking about things that should be easy to discover by judicious...

Forum: Tech Log

7th May 2011, 14:43

Replies: 90

If you have a choice at your airline - Airbus or Boeing?

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Posted By DozyWannabe

No bias there then... :rolleyes: You are...

No bias there then... :rolleyes:

You are aware you can turn the FMC off on an A32/3/4/80 series and it hand-flies rather well, aren't you? As I said on another thread, "C-3P0" didn't try to tell...

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