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So will autopilots include a mode to drop to an altitude where people can start breathing again if depressurization occurs and is not fixed within 2 minutes?
by mahyarm 13y ago
So will autopilots include a mode to drop to an altitude where people can start breathing again if depressurization occurs and is not fixed within 2 minutes?
- Dogamondo 13y agoI'm really interested in this. Anyone?
- mikeash 13y agoSure, then someday an airliner crashes into a mountain because this system got triggered accidentally and it wasn't fixed in time....
- mahyarm 13y agoThat would be part of the autopilot. It will probably use a combination of GPS, maps, and radar to avoid this. And it would fly in circles waiting for people to wake up.
- mikeash 13y agoSure, you can come up with a solution to any objection, but the problem is failure modes you haven't thought of. The overall point is that any safety measure brings its own dangers along, and you have to be very careful when adding stuff to make sure that you've solved more problems than you've added. It's not at all obvious.