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I definitely can't be calm and shooting video like this. For me, a plane flight is a totally magical blackbox, in which I just get onboard, sit, lay back, and d
by izgzhen 6y ago
I definitely can't be calm and shooting video like this. For me, a plane flight is a totally magical blackbox, in which I just get onboard, sit, lay back, and done. Maybe I should be more informed.
- WalterBright 6y agoI'm the opposite. I was always a nervous flyer until I joined Boeing designing flight critical systems. Knowing how the airplanes are engineered gave me a lot of confidence in flying.
- bstar77 6y agoAll the engineering in the world isn’t going to save you if the pilot is as incompetent as the one in the Buffalo crash was.
- WalterBright 6y agoEngineers can make all the parts safe except for the nut behind the wheel. (Having a copilot helps.)
- newsclues 6y agoAs of yet the human is the problem engineers are currently working to remove from the equation
- tomjakubowski 6y agoI hope what they want is to reduce the likelihood of human error causing catastrophic failure. Not necessarily to take humans out of the loop altogether.
- zamfi 6y agoThe former may require the latter.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoyou can't just say that and not tell me how he put his nose up (the exact opposite of what you are supposed to do in a stall warning) and even overrode the automatic stick-pusher, leaving the poor plane to gyrate like this https://youtu.be/lxywEE1kK6I?t=120 https://youtu.be/lxywEE1kK6I?t=120 (and confusing the poor airport ATC who didn't understand where the plane went)
- Retric 6y agoReally interesting comment on that video which might give some explanation: The pilots of Colgan Air had to attend a "tail-stall" course about a month prior to the accident. As a professional pilot I know that if I found myself in a stall less than a month after training about it, the first thing that comes to mind is a "tail stall" and the recovery procedure is counter-intuitive (pitch up, not down). A tail stall has very subtle differences from that of a regular and are hard to distinguish which are which. I have don’t know how accurate it is, but it’s a solid reminder how complex some seemingly obvious things to non experts are. https://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/1_3_4_3.html https://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/1_3_4_3.html
- LandR 6y agoOr his wife told hom she's divorcing him that morning and he flies you into a mountain. Flying is terrifying.
- pid_0 6y ago>Boeing designing flight critical systems. 737 Max.
- WalterBright 6y agoI've commented extensively on the 737MAX many times, based on my experience as a flight controls engineer. In summary, the MCAS' dependence on one sensor was anomalous for Boeing and aviation engineering practice, and serves to emphasize the importance of the dual-path practice.
- perryizgr8 6y ago> I was always a nervous flyer until I joined Boeing designing flight critical systems. I know there's a 737-Max joke in there somewhere ;)
- edoceo 6y agoNot funny. Folk died.
- cosmodisk 6y agoI don't know much about the internal workings of planes but every time I fly I feel so relaxed,almost like if I've gone to a meditation or something. I had a handful of near misses in my life( not with planes) , where you just get to realisation that if things will go wrong, you won't just break a neck,or sprain a muscle, but will 100% be dead. That knowledge somehow allows to remove the panic and simply focus on the task at hand. How I'd react on such a flight is hard to say,as nothing would depend on me.
- confidantlake 6y agoFunny how that happens. I was in 2 near miss situations, both times I was extremely calm. Calmer than I have ever been. Afterwords I was shaking pretty hard though.
- kulig 6y agoI would never be able to set foot inside a plane unless I knew that it can glide to safety without borh engines. Also TCAS.