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I have zero flying experience, but man, just by playing Pilotwings on the SNES and Ace Combat on the PSX, it's ingrained in me that when you stall any aircraft,

I have zero flying experience, but man, just by playing Pilotwings on the SNES and Ace Combat on the PSX, it's ingrained in me that when you stall any aircraft, be it a hang glider or a fighter jet, you put your nose down, gain speed and recover your aircraft. I am Brazilian, and since the first time I read the accident report I couldn't believe how a professional pilot could keep pitching the nose up for minutes on end on a stall situation. It made me A LOT less thrusting of the aviation industry capacity to take me safely from point A to point B.

jstarfish 3y ago
My lack of credentials are identical to yours (fuck Lance) but this is way too harsh. When you witness a car veer off the side of the road, "what a moron, why didn't they just turn the wheel" is a logical question, but in reality the driver may have thought to do so and been physically unable to correct a power steering failure in time. The SNES controller had 8 buttons and was operated from the safety of your couch. I'd imagine trying to correct this sort of situation is more like playing Microsoft Flight Simulator, while you're on a roller coaster, with random features of the plane not working, hypoxia clouding your judgment, and knowing 100+ lives are at stake if you fuck anything up.
- kikokikokiko 3y ago
  All of your arguments are pretty valid, but still it DOES NOT excuse Bonin for keeping the damn joystick pointing the nose UP for MINUTES on end. At some point in time you must reflect upon what you are doing. If my hypothetical car needed to do a turn right, and I keep pointing the steering wheel left for many minutes and still do not realize that what I am doing is antithetical to what I want to happen, the blame is on me. I place the blame for this accident 75% on the crew, and 25% on the stupid design decisions made by Airbus. Averaging control inputs is an inexcusable design decision, and not mechanically linking the controls is the cherry on top. If those 2 design decicions weren't made, hundreds of lives wouldn't have been lost that day, even with the amazing level of incompetence shown by Bonin et all. And every Airbus flying nowadays still have this fatal flaw.

jstarfish 3y ago

My lack of credentials are identical to yours (fuck Lance) but this is way too harsh. When you witness a car veer off the side of the road, "what a moron, why didn't they just turn the wheel" is a logical question, but in reality the driver may have thought to do so and been physically unable to correct a power steering failure in time. The SNES controller had 8 buttons and was operated from the safety of your couch. I'd imagine trying to correct this sort of situation is more like playing Microsoft Flight Simulator, while you're on a roller coaster, with random features of the plane not working, hypoxia clouding your judgment, and knowing 100+ lives are at stake if you fuck anything up.

kikokikokiko 3y ago
All of your arguments are pretty valid, but still it DOES NOT excuse Bonin for keeping the damn joystick pointing the nose UP for MINUTES on end. At some point in time you must reflect upon what you are doing. If my hypothetical car needed to do a turn right, and I keep pointing the steering wheel left for many minutes and still do not realize that what I am doing is antithetical to what I want to happen, the blame is on me. I place the blame for this accident 75% on the crew, and 25% on the stupid design decisions made by Airbus. Averaging control inputs is an inexcusable design decision, and not mechanically linking the controls is the cherry on top. If those 2 design decicions weren't made, hundreds of lives wouldn't have been lost that day, even with the amazing level of incompetence shown by Bonin et all. And every Airbus flying nowadays still have this fatal flaw.