REFLECTOR: OT: Airbus Landing

[robajohnson at comcast.net]

>>I believe the problem with that crash was that the pilot did not give the
fly by wire system enough time to spool up the engines- he was used to
flying a 74 if I remember correctly, and when you push the throttles
foreword in that aircraft, the engines spool up immediately, on the airbus
the computer checks all of the parameters first,<<
Ok, the pilot pushed up the power levers in/up but the computer did not give him power (until it checked things) but it was pilot error? ("the pilot did not give the
fly by wire system enough time"?) 
I realize that has been the official Airbus line lo these many years but I think most pilots can see through that? 
I'm with Hiroo. I have been in the tech business long enough now to *know* that I don't want computers controlling things for me. Collect, process and display information? No problemo! Direct control? No way, thank you very much. 
Thread creep warning- All you FADEC guys, enjoy your extremely high fuel flows. I'll keep my old fashioned mixture knob thank you very much. :-)
DM




 
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> I believe the problem with that crash was that the pilot did not give the 
> fly by wire system enough time to spool up the engines- he was used to 
> flying a 74 if I remember correctly, and when you push the throttles 
> foreword in that aircraft, the engines spool up immediately, on the airbus 
> the computer checks all of the parameters first, then asks you if you are 
> sure you want full power, ect... and the plane just didn't have time to gain 
> thrust- it happened at farnborough I think about 10 years ago or so. 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On 
> Behalf Of Greg Poole 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:45 PM 
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list 
> Subject: REFLECTOR: OT: Airbus Landing 
> 
> 
> .....Hiroo said; 
> 
> >You might have seen a video of an Airbus plowing into the woods 
> > in landing attitude. It happened at an airshow where the pilot intended 
> > to do a low and slow fly-over and go around. The plane insisted on 
> > continuing landing into the bush. 
> 
> Nope ....but that curiousity of mine is now roused again (....Aussies are 
> naturally curious people!) - where can I see this please Hiroo? 
> 
> Greg. 
> 
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