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> (1) Add a third AoA sensor, with voting among them. Interestingly enough, poor software 'voting' was one of the things that lead to Qantas' A330 suddenly div
by madeofpalk 8y ago
> (1) Add a third AoA sensor, with voting among them.
Interestingly enough, poor software 'voting' was one of the things that lead to Qantas' A330 suddenly diving downwards mid-flight a few years back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
> In the usual case, when all three AOA values were valid and consistent, the average value of AOA 1 and AOA 2 was used by the FCPCs for their computations. If either AOA 1 or AOA 2 significantly deviated from the other two values, the FCPCs used a memorised value for 1.2 seconds. The FCPC algorithm was very effective, but it could not correctly manage a scenario where there were multiple spikes in either AOA 1 or AOA 2 that were 1.2 seconds apart.
They never did actually determine why the sensor data was corrupted.