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[Omnis]

They weren't testing. It was an air show demonstration, but the pilot was under the altitude the software allowed for automatic landing abort. Since he was too low, the software forced a landing, even though he was trying to pull up and add throttle. It wasn't computer control, it's fly-by-wire, but the computer makes decisions based on its software, which was flawed.

Yeah. I can't believe they didn't have some kind of total-manual override, though.

 

[Keef]

Surely there was a manual override. But you have to turn it on. The pilots probably didn't fully know howm to operate the thing.

 

[DQuaN]

Some F14 Supersonic Flyby vids.

 

[Jay]

Surely there was a manual override. But you have to turn it on. The pilots probably didn't fully know howm to operate the thing.

Sure, if you forcefully use the controls for a few seconds the aircraft automatically disengages the autopilot, or the pilots could have done that easy enough on their own. Some fly-by-wire modes such as autotrim, autoflare, a.floor (Alpha floor) can only be turned off by override switches (overriding the computers) on the overhead panel, thats only done on abnormal procedures (failures etc).

As for what happened with that particular Airbus A320 to me is a little bit of a mystery, because they were stalling so low the autopilot didn't set go around power automatically and it seems the pilots were too slow to react. maybe they relied on the "fail safe" systems a little too heavily, don't know.




Thanks for posting up those vids Dunc 👍

The blade on the one that ingested the bird moved, as its suppesed to, but didn't break off. Can that engine still be used as normal after that, or does it have to be throttled back/switched off?

Just noticed your post sorry, I'm not entirely sure of the procedures of a engine bird strike, they would vary from plane to plane, engine to engine but if you continued I assume vibration levels would be quite high and would probably do further damage (Pilots can monitor vibration from the cockpit), The engines are supposed to be able to provide at least 50% (from memory)of max normal thrust after a bird strike because most strikes happen at critical times like take off. My guess is after the aircraft is stabilised at at least engine-out altitude the engine would be shut down, but that is only my guess.