About 25 years ago, I was flying into Boston. Got chatting with a guy well into 60's, who was a private pilot, and also had some seat time on the big stuff, courtesy of friends.
Cost cutting at it's finest. No redundancy for the sensor, extra cost for training for what can happen when(if) it messes up and denial.About 25 years ago, I was flying into Boston. Got chatting with a guy well into 60's, who was a private pilot, and also had some seat time on the big stuff, courtesy of friends.
He was talking about the auto-land systems, and said he had been on a flight a week or two before, that was one of the only ones going into that airport that day. He was watching out the window, and that plane executed an auto-land (there is another name for it, just can't recall it....) perfectly - said even when the wheels touched down, he still couldn't see the ground.
Complex systems can execute impressive tasks. Doing it 100% of the time...... another story.
What Boeing has messed up in recent years...... one of the reasons I have concerns with how vehicles get let loose.
What could Go Wrong..... Go Wrong.......
Rgds, D.
.... in an industry that's been "highly regulated" for decades AND gets huge media coverage due to the # of fatalities when things Go Wrong....
A friend flew 747s rigged for cargo only. NY to the mid east. He said it was very very boring.
Interesting on the "highly regulated", yes but no funding for enforcement and the manufactures are "left" to do it themselves.
Regulatory Capture + Self Certify...... at its worst, it doesn't accomplish much more than Plausible Deniability.....