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"DUAL INPUT" is only marginally better than "PC LOAD LETTER"
by saint_fiasco 10y ago
"DUAL INPUT" is only marginally better than "PC LOAD LETTER"
- schoen 10y agoOn the other hand, typical Airbus A330 operators probably have a lot better training about what diagnostic messages mean than typical HP LaserJet operators do.
- ceejayoz 10y agoOn the other other hand, two pilots issuing opposite control inputs generally has a bit more impact than an empty printer tray. Boeing's relatively low-tech solution of making the two controls physically interlinked seems like a common-sense solution to a potentially immense issue.
- snowwrestler 10y agoBut obviously the training did not suffice in the Air France case, because those were experienced Airbus pilots and they did not detect and resolve the contrary inputs.
- lallysingh 10y agoSomething easy to ignore when you're freaking out over a plane going straight into the ocean.
- ceejayoz 10y agoYeah. In an emergency with a frazzled brain it's entirely possible someone'd read that and say "No shit, of course we're both trying to pull up..."
- caf 10y agoPulling up being exactly the wrong action in this case!