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They’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 re
by tlb 7y ago
They’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.