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But would adding an extra caution light / sound to the already-stressful situation have helped? I agree that averaging the inputs seems like an imperfect soluti
by cjrp 14y ago
But would adding an extra caution light / sound to the already-stressful situation have helped? I agree that averaging the inputs seems like an imperfect solution, but what would the alternative be... ignore both or ignore just the Captain/First Officer's inputs?
edit: Re: physically-linked controls (à la Boeing), with one pilot pulling back as hard as he can Vs. the other pushing fwd, isn't the result still (approximately) an average of the two inputs? Obviously they'd feel that the controls weren't moving, but that could be attributed to a number of factors (e.g. icing of the control surfaces).
- rubyrescue 14y agoan alternative would be to move the sticks together, the way non-fly-by-wire planes work.
- rogerbinns 14y agoThey could also make the sticks move together even on fly by wire planes (Boeing does it) using force feedback. That is one thing that Airbus really should have done instead of providing no physical feedback. The expectation is that you would use your eyes instead, but the visual channel is already heavily loaded.
- yesimahuman 14y agoWell the alternative is what planes with yokes were doing before: they move together. However, I feel this behavior would be odd on a joystick...