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The software fix was the stopgap solution to a design side effect. The stopgap solution was also not that well designed, and ultimately confused the pilots, who
by afterburner 7y ago
The software fix was the stopgap solution to a design side effect. The stopgap solution was also not that well designed, and ultimately confused the pilots, who were deliberately untrained in the changes.
Why deliberately untrained? Because the whole selling point of the design was that you wouldn't have to retrain your pilots because it would handle just like the old plane.
- im_down_w_otp 7y agoStill none of that makes it a software failure. We're also straining the definition of "failure" here as it relates to software. Software doesn't really fail in the way considered in the realm of traditional functional-safety. It doesn't wear out like a cable or a capacitor. But, I digress.