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This video from "Mentour pilot" has been deleted (supposedly upon request from boeing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgBft-79U8 You can see it here (european version of youtube): https://vimeo.com/329558134 Or more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627525
Now, imagine you have 5,000 such checks in millions of lines of flight control system code, many of them interdependent, and you have to fly the ship to test each one. You need to schedule time with the test pilots (who have lives of their own) and get the data dump from IT post-flight. It's aerospace so all this undergoes review, documentation, and signoff, and it all takes time. How do you prevent a single check fr…
The AOA calculation is also much more complicated than the article explains. There is a speed element, engine power, etc.
This video from "Mentour pilot" has been deleted (supposedly upon request from boeing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgBft-79U8 You can see it here (european version of youtube): https://vimeo.com/329558134 Or more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627525
It was not deleted on the request of boeing but because the creator did not feel okay about it. He addresses the issue here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q17vykscK0w
Not saying or excusing the failures that led to this crash, but it seems like an oversimplification of the needed solution to suggest that ridiculous data be thrown out, with the benefit of hindsight being used to determine where the threshold of "ridiculous" is.
With all due respect, this sounds too much like the kind of armchair quarterbacking that routinely appears on HN when avionics/politics/astronomy is mentioned, where a lone programmer feels competent enough to criticize an industry for missing "something obvious". I mean, this particular change might have saved the particular 737, but I'd rather hear it from someone who actually knows how 737s fly.
Do you think that an autopilot response to "AOA > 15 degrees" should be the same regardless of whether AOA is 20, 40, 60, or 80 degrees?
This video from "Mentour pilot" has been deleted (supposedly upon request from boeing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgBft-79U8 You can see it here (european version of youtube): https://vimeo.com/329558134 Or more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627525
With all due respect, this sounds too much like the kind of armchair quarterbacking that routinely appears on HN when avionics/politics/astronomy is mentioned, where a lone programmer feels competent enough to criticize an industry for missing "something obvious". I mean, this particular change might have saved the particular 737, but I'd rather hear it from someone who actually knows how 737s fly.
With all due respect, this sounds too much like the kind of armchair quarterbacking that routinely appears on HN when avionics/politics/astronomy is mentioned, where a lone programmer feels competent enough to criticize an industry for missing "something obvious". I mean, this particular change might have saved the particular 737, but I'd rather hear it from someone who actually knows how 737s fly.
With all due respect, this sounds too much like the kind of armchair quarterbacking that routinely appears on HN when avionics/politics/astronomy is mentioned, where a lone programmer feels competent enough to criticize an industry for missing "something obvious". I mean, this particular change might have saved the particular 737, but I'd rather hear it from someone who actually knows how 737s fly.
With all due respect, this sounds too much like the kind of armchair quarterbacking that routinely appears on HN when avionics/politics/astronomy is mentioned, where a lone programmer feels competent enough to criticize an industry for missing "something obvious". I mean, this particular change might have saved the particular 737, but I'd rather hear it from someone who actually knows how 737s fly.