Airbus said a recent incident had revealed that solar flares may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
This is incredibly interesting, I hope the final report includes specific details of the data corruption and what they did to fix it. Actually it’s more interesting because the fix is reverting to a previous software version so they somehow introduced a vulnerability to single event upsets I’m guessing. I’d love to know how often these sort of events happen (not just when they cause issues but bit-flips in general). I know that flying high they are exposed to higher levels of radiation than on the ground.
who needs they Airbussy ate?
jesus
gonna need the volcel police over here
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
Airbus engineers want some of that sweet, sweet media attention so they started to do Boeing cosplay.
Europe’s Airbus said on Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet, threatening upheaval during the busiest travel weekend of the year in the United States and disruption worldwide.
Doing this proactively after a single incident instead of waiting for a crash to force their hand means it’s not a very lore-accurate cosplay.
Rookie mistake. Learning curve. Give them time.
boeing be like: check is in the mail
if ( Fuselage.getInstance().getEngineCount() == 2 ) { foreach ( Engine engine : Fuselage.getInstance().getEngines() ) { engine.setThrottleLevel( 100.00d ); } }Ah, see, here’s your problem – you have to make sure the engines are still attached before you just command them to full throttle.
The spec says engine references are supposed to be removed from the Fuselage instance when they’re destroyed.
Please raise this issue with the engine team.
Closing this ticket.
My bad
Enough with the airplanes flown by software. Give me the Red Baron in the cockpit and let him do his thing.
If a plane was flown start to finish without software there would be thousands of crashes each year. What do you think autopilot is? Do you expect pilots to fly using maps and compasses?
Yes
Ok
no i expect them to use an extensive series of navigation towers
REJECT RNAV, RETVRN to VOR/DME
Nah I’m good I’ll keep my magenta line thank you very much.
I’m partially kidding but partially not. Ever since it was revealed that the 737 MAX 8 came with software that the pilots were not briefed on at all because it was supposed to be irrelevant, and then it turned out that the software just pointed the nose at the ground, I’m incredibly skeptical of what else we don’t know about.
If I recall correctly, in the MAX 8’s case, they added the nose-pointing “feature” because the engines are too big for the body of that plane, so they slapped it on instead of properly engineering a functional aircraft.
I don’t recall anyone from Boeing going to prison or even losing their job for killing 346 people, so if there are no repercussions to using poorly-tested software to compensate for poor engineering resulting in hundreds of deaths… it greatly hurts my confidence in modern jet manufacture. I know the 320 is not a new airframe like the MAX 8 was but still.
Seeing as you never got an answer, the person you were responding to was being wildly sarcastic. He definitely doesn’t think that planes should be hand-flown. He’s presenting the version of a stupid opinion like “I have an immune system so I don’t need medicine” or “Kids in my day never needed car seats or seat belts” in reference to the use of flight software/automation.
Red Baron
Snoopy could pull some maneuvers
Grok autopilot when
