Airplanes are technology >Boeing 737max Crashes 2 times due to computer fault >A321 Banks 45 degrees and hits shit on runway due to some weird fault >A330 Starts diving on itself
Why all modern planes have weird computer issues? Stop killing people, Jow Forums.
A320 was made in pre-pajeet era, yet it has similar faults, even more weirder ones.
Jaxson Ward
pajeet (((firmware updates)))
Gabriel Williams
Hm... Screw you guys, I'm flying Tupolev. Not moder FBW garbage, but real plane, where you fuck up - you die. Tu-154M >Metric instruments >913 km/h >3 cabin crew >Supreme soviet asbestos smell
Christian Anderson
Wasn't the last one retired like 10 years ago?
Michael Barnes
Yes, but I think they need to start manufacturing it again
Angel Myers
>asbestos enjoy your lung cancer
Caleb Martinez
Because they're fly-by-wire, instead of conventional mechanical manual flight controls. Fly-by-wire is basically hooking up controls to a computer, and having the computer control all the control surfaces and shit. This allows fancy shit like allowing for worse designed planes to be flown because the computer automatically makes the plane point in the right direction. But considering planes are difficult, it requires big computer systems. And big computer systems mean more chances for glitches. Those glitches can be catastrophic if it's your fucking ability to control the plane. With direct control you at least know what the plane is doing. Fly-by-wire is only going to work on simple shit, or with extremely advanced computers. They should have manual overrides still in my opinion.
Logan Gomez
only faggots get cancer
in Russia there are no faggots
William Walker
wow im impressed that Boeing shills are still working hard.
Well, there was an override which would have saved the plane and pilots were trained to operate it in different circumstances, but the actual MCAS feature and the way to disable it were poorly communicated to the pilots, so that they didn't all know how to disable MCAS, let alone what it was in the first place. Fly-by-wire as a concept isn't at fault here. The software apparently did what it was designed to do, but it wasn't designed to gracefully handle a fault in the AoA sensor that fed it. The reasoning was that MCAS was not safety critical, since the pilot could always override it and take over the plane, flying it normally. The problem with that was that Boeing chose to minimize training for pilots transitioning to the Max (to make the plane cheaper for airlines to adopt into their fleets), and failed to make sure pilots were aware of MCAS and knew how to identify and correct for its failures. They assumed that pilots would be able to see the MCAS failure and intuitively recognize it as a different failure scenario, but two crashed aircrews pretty much negate that assumption.
Jace Garcia
>but the actual MCAS feature and the way to disable it were poorly communicated to the pilots I thought it would still be fly-by-wire at that point, not direct control. Which in my opinion is still a mistake.
>Fly-by-wire as a concept isn't at fault here. The software apparently did what it was designed to do, but it wasn't designed to gracefully handle a fault in the AoA sensor that fed it. Sure, but I'd say that the risk of anything going wrong in a computer system is too great.
Owen Walker
All there systems are inefficient. All airplane should do is simulate drunk flight instructor shouting in the ear. "NO, GO AROUND YOU ASSHOLE" etc.
Kayden Davis
kek true
Cooper Green
There's no way to do "direct control" with fly by wire, ever. The whole point of fly by wire is reduced weight and mechanical complexity.
Logan Taylor
So I work for Boeing as an aerospace Mechanic. They spam the gender/race politically correct shit. But when it comes to actual practice, they hire a fuck ton of white and asian people. Women are rare in Aerospace.
Oliver Moore
I know. They only had three or 4 of them and had to use a man for one of their ads
Well no, Boeing 777 has mechanical flight control backup systems.
Oliver Taylor
I blame the stupid Americans in a shitty American company.
Isaac Thompson
>Crashes 2 times due to computer fault It was a sensor fault and lack of pilot training.
Benjamin Gomez
A sensor fault that wasn't correctly handled by the computer. The computer did what it was told to do, but it should've been programmed differently, the computer was part of the problem.
Samuel Williams
>MCAS feature and the way to disable it were poorly communicated to the pilots, so that they didn't all know how to disable MCAS, let alone what it was in the first place.
MCAS is just one of many systems controlling the trim wheel (pic related). 737 pilots are trained to switch off power to the trim wheel and trim manually if ANY system trims opposite to what they want it to do. There is no need for pilots to disable MCAS specifically, they should disable power to the trim wheel FIRST and THEN figure out which of the many systems was responsible or just keep trimming manually.
Sure they could have added extra safety nets. Which is what Boeing is adding now.
Like you said the computer did what it was told to do. It was designed to work exactly the way it did. The people designing it just never expected the pilots to act the way they did, they expected pilots to follow their training but it turned out pilots sometimes forget their training.
Henry Russell
Cable flying these massive planes would be nearly impossible. Especially with women in the industry. A B29 Super Fortress was one of the largest analog planes mass produced. A 737 Max 8 weighs twice as much as it.
Adrian Lopez
how the fuck would you have a mechanical control airliner? you can't have a fucking 80m steel bar to move the rudders
Xavier Kelly
You don't need fly-by-wire to make use of hydraulics. Pilots can operate the hydraulics themselves or leave it to a computer - those are the choices.
Wyatt Garcia
To be honest, they didn't forget their training, they never got the extra training because Boeing went through loopholes to make the training cheaper by saying it's basically the same plane. It's also bad to expect the pilots to pick up faults in sensors and computers, while the computer could easily pick that up. There are definitely planes that don't use fly by wire in current commercial airplanes. Hydraulics.
Blake Nguyen
>they never got the extra training
No extra training was needed. The way to deal with a fault in MCAS is exactly the same as dealing with a fault in any other system with control over the horizontal trim: you trim manually.
James Peterson
That's not what I heard, but fair enough, I didn't do that much research into what each training covered.
Joshua Phillips
Couple spoilers aint mechanical backup. It is like steering car by braking using stick you put through a window.