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I'm surprised they don't do a full reset then set every checklist variable to an invalid state, in which the aircraft will not permit starting until all have be
by proactivesvcs 5y ago
I'm surprised they don't do a full reset then set every checklist variable to an invalid state, in which the aircraft will not permit starting until all have been set by the flight crew.
- throwaway984393 5y agoThis is the way. Like a computer-enforced Pointing and Calling.
- anaganisk 5y agoI mean if you are able to do that, why to even have a checklist. I mean the computer must be able to complete the checklist, unless specified, no? Or is the checklist important because the pilots must know what they’re dealing with?
- proactivesvcs 5y agoI can't say I have much of an idea of what goes on in a cockpit but presumably not everything is related to something a computer knows, or can change. Clean windscreens, functioning levers, coffee cup filled ;-) Also having to poke the computer also helps check that the computer isn't obviously broken.