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Eeyore wrote:


So do I, my friend, as I am about to get on one for the first time in
October. All of my previous cross-pond jaunts have been in properly built
747s, which have a proper yoke for the driver to hang on to, and
'automatics' that can be switched off. There's something fundamentally
wrong
about a plane that has to be flown with a left-handed joystick, and which
employs a robot driver hidden away somewhere, which believes it knows more
about how to fly a plane, than the human guy and his chum in the co-seat,
who have 40 years flying experience between them ... :-\

Arfa




Fly by wire uses 3 hidden "driver" computers running 3 different bits of
firmware, then a democratic voting system that decides which 2 drivers to go
with, before making a control surface movement.
Now we recently know, in the UK, what such a voting structure produces in
the way of a parliament.


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