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Reply to post: Re: We had crashes because the autopilot disengaged without the pilots noticing...

Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST

Johan Bastiaansen

Re: We had crashes because the autopilot disengaged without the pilots noticing...

"This is a bit like the Air France flight 447 crash. Where the aircraft was "averaging" the inputs of the two pilots - whose cockpit discipline had broken down and were both trying to fly the plane at once. This is a situation that can't be allowed - and the automation shouldn't allow."

This really is a no-brainer. One of the pilots is called the captain, the other is the called the co-pilot.

The software must be designed by morons, there is no other logical explanation.

Find them, throw them out of a flying helicopter.

NEXT!

You will see the quality of the software increase dramatically.

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