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Boeing Jet’s Faulty Sensor Wasn’t Fixed Before Lion Air Crash, Report Finds
A malfunctioning sensor at the center of the investigation into the Oct. 29 crash of a Lion Air jetliner into the Java Sea wasn’t repaired before the fatal flight even though it had failed on the plane’s previous trip, according to a preliminary investigative report. (www.bloomberg.com) Daha Fazlası...Silence the warnings, turn off automation, Fly the airplane!
The problem is that turning off automation is getting more and more difficult as the fight as to who can fly the plane better rages on. It is becoming an either or choice between teaching a student to be a pilot or an automation manager, particularly in foreign countries. I myself believe that the push of one big red button should give the pilot ALL basic control. At that point, they had better have an idea of how to fly an airplane. Reengage automation as it is preferred and safe to do so.
For sure. I remember the old Learjet.....if you had a runaway aileron trim or pitch trim you had the little red button which killed power to everything including a/p. If you took a bird strike on takeoff (and it didn’t go through the engine) and it sheared off the AOA vane, no issue because both AOA’s had to agree to activate the stick pusher. If the pusher fired anyway for any reason you just turned off the “stall warning switches “ and continued on. I’d trust a Lear driver anyday......flogging around at M.080 or handflying at M.78 at FL430 furned out quite a few good Talents. Then when you finally got to hand fly a B727, DC8-63; or L-1011 and the skipper looked over and said,” wow all that and maintaining altitude + or - 50’ or clicking off the A/P every hour or so just to see how the aircraft was trimming itself, them re-engaging it.....that was flying!
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You bet! The 24D with a MarkII wing was the best aircraft I ever flew bar none. ATC would ask, "how fast are you climbing?" WE would say, "Don't know the VSI is pegged!" What a performer.
How do you determine which one is bad? Why would an aircraft with two sensors rely on data from only one?