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Boeing still gives the pilots a lot of control over the airplane, compared to Airbus. Airbus has defaulted to fly-by-wire (i.e: the computer has control and the
by fwip 7y ago
Boeing still gives the pilots a lot of control over the airplane, compared to Airbus. Airbus has defaulted to fly-by-wire (i.e: the computer has control and the pilot makes suggestions) for planes made since the 1980's.
- the_pwner224 7y agoAirbus doesn't try to hide that fact from its pilots.
- fwip 7y agoOh, for sure. The person I replied to made it sound like it was always a bad thing (to have a computer in charge), though, and that's certainly not the case.
- magduf 7y agoHaving a computer in charge works fine when the computer is designed correctly, with lots of redundancy and the pilots are trained to understand how it works. This isn't what Boeing did.