Ferrari Mailing List: Fwd: Airbus .... more bad news

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

Hey Capt'n cLyDe: So . . . what's yer opinion on this. Sully did an  
outstanding piece of flying to get everybody home safe and sound, IMHO. It's 
not  
about him, but the Airbus instead.
 
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba



>From a friend of a friend.....

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Might find this interesting about  the Airbus crash.  Got this forwarded from 
a friend who has been a  lifelong pilot and aviation buff, and obviously he 
got from some of his  aircraft friends.  I've heard others complain about "fly 
by wire" and  "computer controlled airplanes"............another perspective.
 


 
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EVERYONE:  Eric is a retired US Air pilot and a judge  at OSH each yr..and a 
close friend.



 
 
 
Interesting  what he thinks of Air Bus??? I had asked him if he knew the  
pilot Sully .. Crash



 
 
 




 
  
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Hello  Crash:

Actually it's Hudson  river fame.  I didn't know him.  I've seen  him in the 
crew room and around the system but never met  him.  He was former PSA and I 
was  former Piedmont and we never had the occasion to  fly together.

The dumb shit press just won't leave  this alone.  Most airliner ditchings 
aren't very  successful since they take place on the open ocean with  wind, 
rough seas, swells and rescue boats are hours or days  away.  This one happened 
in 
fresh smooth water, landing  with the current and the rescue boats were there 
picking  people up while they were still climbing out of the  airplane.  It 
also happened on a cold winter day when  all the pleasure boats were parked.  
Had this happened  in July it would be pretty hard not to whack a couple of  
little boats.  Sully did a nice job but so would 95% of  the other pilots in 
the 
industry. 

Don't be  surprised if the Airbus fly by wire computers didn't put a  
perfectly good airplane in the water.   In a older  generation airplane  like 
the 727 
or  737 300/400  the throttles are hooked to the fuel controllers on the  
engine by a steel throttle cable just like a TBM or a  Comanche.  On the Airbus 
nothing in the cockpit is  real.  Everything is electronic.  The throttles,  
rudder and brake pedals and the side stick are hooked to  rheostats who talk to 
a computer who talks to a electric  hydraulic servo valve which in turn 
hopefully moves  something.

In a older generation airplane when you  hit birds the engines keep screaming 
or they blow up but  they don't both roll back to idle simultaneously like  
happened to Flt. 1549.  All it would take is for bird  guts to plug a pressure 
sensor or knock the pitot probe off  or plug it and the computers would roll 
the engines back to  idle thinking they were over boosting because the 
computers  were getting bad data.   The Airbus is a real pile of  shit.  I 
don't like 
riding on them.  
 
Google  Airbus A320 Crash at the Paris Airshow in  1998.  Watch the video of 
an airbus A320 crash into a  forest because the computers wouldn't allow a 
power increase  following a low pass.  The computers wouldn't allow a  power 
increase because they determined that the airspeed was  too low for the 
increase 
requested so the computers didn't  give them any.  Pushing the throttles 
forward in a  Airbus does nothing more than request a power increase from  the 
computer.  If the computer doesn't like all the  airplane and engine parameters 
you 
don't get a power  increase.   Airbus blamed the dead crew since they  
couldn't defend themselves.  A Boeing would still be  flying.

Eric



 
 
 


































 
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