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Maurice Winn

To: elmatador who wrote (2591)	6/19/2019 4:34:34 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation of 13794

The tactile feedback in a Boeing cockpit is their essential design to give pilots a strong sense of what they're doing. It's like the road feedback you get from a BMW - compared with one-finger power steering of a big-boat-Caddilac which isolates you from knowing how extreme your maneuvers are, allowing you to easily roll the Cadillac in a turn. The force required may need to be adapted if airlines hire less physically capable pilots. It's a matter of gearing. It's like the fact I could never become a fighter pilot because I'm too tall for the cockpit, and other people are too short. It's discrimination but the military doesn't want to spend the extra $100 billion to accommodate tall or short pilots. It requires quite a lot of force to apply Boeing brakes forcefully enough to destroy them and set them on fire. Yet in rare emergency landings this is exactly what the pilots have to do anf they both press on their brake pedal with all their might. When they come to a stop it's not like they don't know their brakes will be on fire or might fail even before they come to a stop. Airbus has followed the one-finger power-steering approach. An airline could more easily adapt an Airbus cockpit to be flown by a disabled pilot in a wheel chair, while this level of accommodation is likely not possible with a Boeing design. Airlines don't hire physically disabled pilots, even for Airbus aircraft, which is discrimination, but that's what they do. The "one finger" effortless Airbus joystick also introduces quite a number of problems. 1.) The Airbus pilot can effortlessly move the joy-stick into a sharp maneuver which will destroy the aircraft. As a consequence, Airbus is actually flown by a flight computer which takes the pilots movements merely as a suggestion. 2.) If an Airbus pilot actually needs to make an emergency maneuver, say to avoid a collision, this is impossible as the flight computer ignores this gestures and implements a slow gentle turn. 3.) When the flight computer fails, such as on the Air France from Brazil, Airbus pilots have zero experience or training actually flying the aircraft themselves. Even now senior pilots receive a total of 2 hours simulator experience flying an Airbus without the flight computer. It's hardly a surprise that a flight computer failure in an Airbus leads to a fatal crash about 50% of the time.

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