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This article seems to be mostly Airbus-bashing. This part about the 'coffin-corner' is just ridiculous. If flying was that dangerous, the safety records should
by daskrachen 17y ago
This article seems to be mostly Airbus-bashing. This part about the 'coffin-corner' is just ridiculous. If flying was that dangerous, the safety records should look differently.
Airbus' fly-by-wire system is built specifically to keep the plane on the save side of the flying envelope and will actively prevent the pilot from swaying out of it. This is its purpose and design.
- rbanffy 17y agoMore than one accident (the 320 that ran off the airport here in São Paulo a couple years back comes to mind) happened because the computer thought the pilot needs it to do one thing while the pilot was trying to do another. Many pilots regard the Airbus avionics as overly complicated and prone to unexpected behavior since that 320 crash right early on. During a crisis, the last thing I need is a tool acting unexpectedly.