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I’m pretty sure most of the computers can be reset during flight. You may lose flight protections, but you can fly an airplane on basic instruments. You can eve
by kayodelycaon 4y ago
I’m pretty sure most of the computers can be reset during flight. You may lose flight protections, but you can fly an airplane on basic instruments. You can even handle unreliable speed by flying at a specific angle of attack and a proper thrust setting. (According to the Air France 447 report)
On some (all?) Airbus planes, the basic flight controls don’t require the flight computers to function.
- dylan604 4y ago>On some (all?) Airbus planes, the basic flight controls don’t require the flight computers to function. I would honestly hope that would be true about any airplane from any manufacture. Fly-by-wire makes some of that more difficult when the wires go through the computer, but even then I'd have assumed some sort of 100% manual capability. Like when Y2K nutters were predicting airplanes falling out of the sky because of 2-digit years rather than the logical the planes would behave according to laws of physics for an intact air frame.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoIt looks like the mechanical backup for modern Airbus planes is stabilizer trim and hydraulic rudder. https://skybrary.aero/articles/flight-control-laws https://skybrary.aero/articles/flight-control-laws