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Great sidestick view of A320 landing - right seat
I love it when the general public says, "these things land themselves pilots are just system managers" This video shows the amazing abilties and skill of what REAL pilots do every day... (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Watching this video calls to mind more than one pilot that I have flown with in my career that is a yoke waggler. This is a bentwing60 invented term, but describes a control operator, pilot, who inputs, cancels, and counteracts the controls so rapidly that the airplane has no time to respond, thus wasted motion. The video does not show the visual cues (out the windscreen, so I won't say that all of that monkey motion was unnecessary, but, it kinda looked like he was stirring something on the stove. Long ago I would tell a student, the hardest thing to do is nothing, but when that is what the airplane calls for, that is the appropriate response. Nothing. Short final is the domain of the waggler, the flare, is the coup d'etat. Gotta stir that butter. If you are a waggler, you probably don't even know it, but, think about it!
I would have to totally agree about the pot stirring and the comment above about having it hooked to a playstation. Agreed that it shows no visual cues but dang, that is a little much.
Totally agree Wayne...but if you look at a company like JetBlue they seem to have these machines behave wonderfully. They can fix 'em better than they can in the EUR too. Now just think if both crew start waggling that stick as happened with that tragic AF over the S Atlantic.
lol.
Are either of you two qualified on the airbus fleet?
I am not. And thank you spatr for an informed (Airbus qualified) post. Your point about roll rate and g-loading could be equally applied to conventional controls. It's just that they don't do it through a series of computers designed to isolate the airplane from the operator. The video brought to mind past episodes of watching operators over control airplanes, the dangers of which are very real and well documented. Think AA flight 587. At that time the rudder software problem was in uncharted waters, never the less, res ipsa loquitur. As for the rest, what Preacher said.
The fact of the matter is that the basic laws of aerodynamics apply to the A320 just the same as any Boeing, Douglas, Lockheed,etc. The flight control computers may be calibrated differently, but you still have to move the controls to make it go in the direction you want. At Vr you pull back, on landing you still need to flare, you lose an engine you step on a rudder pedal. The main difference from most fly-by-wire aircraft is that there is no tactile feedback like some airplanes that have an artificial feel computer. Yes, we are managers as are most modern airliner pilots. I do nothing different than anybody else with an autopilot, autothrottles, and flight director.
And while the computers do "isolate" us to a point, it will go where I want it to go when I want it to do so, if it doesn't we can take the computers offline...it's not HAL9000. The only difference is like I said before, there is no seat of the pants flying feel to it.
And while the computers do "isolate" us to a point, it will go where I want it to go when I want it to do so, if it doesn't we can take the computers offline...it's not HAL9000. The only difference is like I said before, there is no seat of the pants flying feel to it.
simply said you are correct sir
I am and that was too much