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

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Any guesses what the culprit was on last nights event?  Tail lock up?
DOUG

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From: <Red5hilser [at] aol.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:50 PM
Subject: [Ferrari] Fwd: Airbus .... more bad news


> 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. 
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> about him, but the Airbus instead.
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> Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
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> Might find this interesting about  the Airbus crash.  Got this forwarded 
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> a friend who has been a  lifelong pilot and aviation buff, and obviously 
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> EVERYONE:  Eric is a retired US Air pilot and a judge  at OSH each yr..and 
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> Interesting  what he thinks of Air Bus??? I had asked him if he knew the
> pilot Sully .. Crash
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> Hello  Crash:
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> Actually it's Hudson  river fame.  I didn't know him.  I've seen  him in 
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> crew room and around the system but never met  him.  He was former PSA and 
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> was  former Piedmont and we never had the occasion to  fly together.
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> 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 
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> picking  people up while they were still climbing out of the  airplane. 
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> also happened on a cold winter day when  all the pleasure boats were 
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> Had this happened  in July it would be pretty hard not to whack a couple 
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> little boats.  Sully did a nice job but so would 95% of  the other pilots 
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> 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 
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> rudder and brake pedals and the side stick are hooked to  rheostats who 
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> a computer who talks to a electric  hydraulic servo valve which in turn
> hopefully moves  something.
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> In a older generation airplane when you  hit birds the engines keep 
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> 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 
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> sensor or knock the pitot probe off  or plug it and the computers would 
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> 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 
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> Google  Airbus A320 Crash at the Paris Airshow in  1998.  Watch the video 
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> 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 
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> increase because they determined that the airspeed was  too low for the 
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> 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 
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> 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.
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