sidestick - different inputs
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http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/c...enger604.shtml
If you're wondering where the sidestick is, it was mounted on the Pilot's side console (just out of frame in the cockpit view). The lefthand yoke was made demountable for the trials.
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Aircraft are not flown by watching steering column deflection, nor by watching control surfaces deflection. Aircraft are flown by setting their attitude which is availible on the attitude indicator. Fact is that on a FBW Airbus there is no other option.
In the LH incident described, the PNF had the benefit of a doubt and took over just in time having no other indication than his PFD. It is a stupid speculation, but imagine if he saw the PF apply correct (in a conventional sense) displacement of controls, 30 (or as I hear 15) centimetres worth of confusion could have been the difference between life and death.
About a month later Turkish AF had a fatal accident with medim size transport turboprop, which left maintenance with crossed controls.
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remember your first flying lesson, if the capt says "I have control", answer "you have control",... and that 's all.
no need of stick computers and green or red flashing lights!
no need of stick computers and green or red flashing lights!