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A lot of armchair commenters need to realize that commercial planes accept commands; it's up to the pilot to prevent putting the the airplane into an unsafe sta
by exabrial 3y ago
A lot of armchair commenters need to realize that commercial planes accept commands; it's up to the pilot to prevent putting the the airplane into an unsafe state. This is actually an important safety feature in itself... being able to override all systems to prevent a catastrophe has happened many times in flight history. For instance, if you need to dodge an incoming collision, you could care less if you might exceed the g-load-rating of the airframe. You might crack something, but it might safe quite a few lives; vs a guaranteed death if you stay on the collision course and can't turn fast enough.
Your experience with technology is consumer safety systems. These are designed so safety systems can't be overriden: the tech is protecting you from yourself.
If you think this is "bad", you really ought to watch the startup sequence of a large commercial airliner. There are lots of things depend on the crew to do the right thing and it literally happens thousands of times a day, every single day, with an accident record that is far better than consumer safety systems.
- hughesjj 3y agoI have no issues with there being manual overrides. I have issues with Boeing cheaping out on design and then whining to ignore safety rules so they don't have to fix their bad design.
- metabagel 3y agoI feel like you didn't read the article, since your comment doesn't address anything from the article itself. In this particular case, the engine anti-ice system needs to be turned off within 5 minutes of icing conditions going away. The pilots union has said they are concerned about this. There needs to be a better system than that. > The problem is there’s no alert or indication to the crew that the system needs to be turned off. They just have to remember to do it.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago>A lot of armchair commenters need to realize that commercial planes accept commands; it's up to the pilot to prevent putting the the airplane into an unsafe state. Looks like one more armchair commenter has yet to learn about the Airbus flight law system; it's not possible to put the aircraft into an unsafe state in Normal Law. AFAIK, Boeing has nothing comparable.
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