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I have the impression that people are overlooking the sensors. They are suppose to be very, very, reliable. Two different planes got wrong reading from sensor i
by piadodjanho 7y ago
I have the impression that people are overlooking the sensors. They are suppose to be very, very, reliable. Two different planes got wrong reading from sensor in the same side, this seems to be a red flag for me. I wonder in what side of the sensor cable the problem is.
- tlb 7y agoThey’re not expected to be that reliable. They’re small vanes sticking out the side of the nose, vulnerable to bird strikes. The article mentions hundreds of reported failures over the years. The way to make the system reliable is redundancy.
- piadodjanho 7y agoThe article says it had 122 failure due bird strikes plus 85 unnamed problems in about 30 years of data. Considering the number of flights, that does sounds reliable to me. I still think two failures in the same sensor, in the same airplane, under the same condition, in less than one year did not happen by chance.
- chimpburger 7y agoYou have a very poor understanding of probability. At a mean failure rate of 0.66 per year, it is quite probable for 2 failures to be spaced 4.5 months apart.