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>go direct That's not really a thing in modern airliners. The computer is still heavily involved even when hand-flying the plane.
by 0xffff2 7y ago
>go direct
That's not really a thing in modern airliners. The computer is still heavily involved even when hand-flying the plane.
- DuskStar 7y ago"Thankfully", the 737 series isn't a modern airliner, and isn't fly-by-wire. All control inputs are directly linked to the relevant outputs, though sometimes with power assistance.
- imglorp 7y agoIt is on the Airbus, one of the control laws, see link above. It's still FBW though, so one might argue that "mechanical backup" is really what you want. As for "modern", the A320 had control laws in 1984 and the 777 in 1994.