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"Solving this isn't going to be as simple as saying "the flight software should defer to the pilot" or vice versa." Actually it is. 2 sensors: Defer to the pi
by jayalpha 8y ago
"Solving this isn't going to be as simple as saying "the flight software should defer to the pilot" or vice versa."
Actually it is.
2 sensors: Defer to the pilot with alarm that sensor data is unreliable if inconsistent.
3 sensors: trust majority of signals.
But "deciding" by software for one signal when having only 2 sensors with inconsistent results is negligence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Airspeed_inconsistency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Airspeed...
- usrusr 8y agoThe root cause is that they were trying to work around a hardware problem with a software patch. In the old days, they would have balanced the incidental high-aoa lift from the moved and bigger nacelles with a larger elevator surface instead of adding a jack-in-the-box surprise feature into already borderline incomprehensible autotrim logic.