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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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Indeed we do, and there have been more than a few instances where true
fly-by-wire sytems of this type, have made a totally wrong decision in a
given unusual set of circumstances, and the driver and his chum have been
blocked from taking control to correct the situation. I have to say that
whilst I am not by any stretch of the imagination, a nervous flyer, I do
have serious misgivings about these robot-flown new technology Airbuses. And
as for that new double decker thing designed and built all over Europe by
committee, nothing in the world would persuade me onto one. The size of that
thing is just plain WRONG !!

Arfa