Reply With QuoteThat makes no sense at all. In every other aircraft I know of, (which is actually quite a lot, you can ask Kuci, my middle school flight sim addiction was acute), the controls move in tandem for pilot and copilot--this includes helicopters, as well.
Reading about this Air France ****, why the **** do Airbus planes have little toy joysticks to control the plane?
Why the **** can the pilot manipulate his stick while the co-pilot doesn't notice?
WHY THE **** DOES IT "AVERAGE" THE INPUTS?
Who ever thought this was a good idea...?? How have they been making planes with this obvious deficiency for decades?
That makes no sense at all. In every other aircraft I know of, (which is actually quite a lot, you can ask Kuci, my middle school flight sim addiction was acute), the controls move in tandem for pilot and copilot--this includes helicopters, as well.
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Usually the controls are physically chained together so that it's not actually possible to move them independently.
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From the rust belt where industry won't go
They're Europeans. 'Nuff said. All the smart people emigrated to North America long ago.
Averaging the inputs is important in the event of an attempted suicide-by-plane scenario. If the captain points the nose down full deflection, the copilot can save the plane by doing the opposite.
They're going to be making at least a few "bubba Airbuses" before too long in Alabama. Knowing that Jethro is going to be responsible for the plane not crashing makes me want to never get on an Airbus ever again.
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It seems enough stupidity crossed the pond as well...Originally Posted by Kuciwalker
"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Dont forget that your iconic Puritans emigrated because they wanted more religious persecution and control, not less
Safer worlds through superior firepower
They wanted to be able to set their own rules within their own entirely Puritan community, and not be persecuted for being Puritan by non-Puritans in Europe. It's called self-determination.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Yeah, but they were also a bunch of dicks who wanted to order everyone else about how to live their lives.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
Why would you think that airplanes would be incompetently built in Alabama? Alabama actually has a decent aeronautical engineering community thanks to NASA. And if you own a Japanese car, it was probably built either there or in Georgia or Tennessee.
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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And why the **** does someone with less flight experience outrank someone with more? And how the **** can they have had such a long conversation and not any one of them be aware of what the **** the plane was actually doing.
Also, AFAIK this was out several months ago. Why so late?
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Yeah, they are creating jobs for Americans. And if the planes do crash, well, then more jobs!
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Or Ontario.
Have a fun time flying, pretty sure Boeing's 787s are being built/assembled in SC.
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Yeah, Charleston, right next to the USAF's C-17s.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Yeah, the Carolinas are a secondary assembly site for the 787s. And as usual, it's all because of politics. Not the inherent genius of its citizens.
It's because the citizens of South Carolina are smart enough to realize that unions are bad.
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Boeing Documents saw South Carolina as the worst option for 787 assembly, deemed it high risk and likely to fail. South Carolina
I'm sure the $800M-$1B in tax breaks the state government threw at Boeing also had no bearing on their decision.
I didn't imply it was because of the "inherent genius of its citizens."
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -Homer
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