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And this is why fully autonomous flight control systems won't be certified for airliners in our lifetimes. While autonomous systems are capable of taking off, navigating to a destination, and landing they are largely incapable of handling major emergencies. It's impossible for engineers to foresee every possible failure mode and program for it.
I don't know about others, but I can't help but smile when I read the detailed series of events in aviation postmortems. To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. I say that sincerely since mistakes are going to happen and in my view robustness has l…
I don't know about others, but I can't help but smile when I read the detailed series of events in aviation postmortems. To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. I say that sincerely since mistakes are going to happen and in my view robustness has l…
I don't know about others, but I can't help but smile when I read the detailed series of events in aviation postmortems. To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. I say that sincerely since mistakes are going to happen and in my view robustness has l…
If 200 people died after a db instance crashed, software would be equal in that regard.
I don't know about others, but I can't help but smile when I read the detailed series of events in aviation postmortems. To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. I say that sincerely since mistakes are going to happen and in my view robustness has l…
Note I wrote when X fails, not if X fails. It's a different way of thinking.
I don't know about others, but I can't help but smile when I read the detailed series of events in aviation postmortems. To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. I say that sincerely since mistakes are going to happen and in my view robustness has l…
I think many of us are so used to working with software, with its constant need for adaptation and modification in order to meet an ever growing list of integration requirements, that we forget the benefits of working with a finalized spec with known constants like melting points, air pressure, and gravity.
I don't know about others, but I can't help but smile when I read the detailed series of events in aviation postmortems. To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. I say that sincerely since mistakes are going to happen and in my view robustness has l…
Aerospace things have to be like this or they just wouldn’t work at all. There are just too many points of failure and redundancy is capped by physics. When there’s a million things which if they went wrong could cause catastrophic failure, you have to be really good at learning how to not make mistakes.
Not exactly. The idea is not not making mistakes, it's whatcha gonna do about X when (not if) it fails.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think many of us are so used to working with software, with its constant need for adaptation and modification in order to meet an ever growing list of integration requirements, that we forget the benefits of working with a finalized spec with known constants like melting points, air pressure, and gravity.
Airliners face constantly changing specifications. No two airliners are built the same.
I'm wondering why the tolerances for the oil pipe were so small in the first place. Why not make the pipe one or two mm thicker?
I don't know about others, but I can't help but smile when I read the detailed series of events in aviation postmortems. To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. I say that sincerely since mistakes are going to happen and in my view robustness has l…
> To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry. And to be able to reconstruct the chain of events after the components in question have exploded and been scattered throughout south-east Asia is incredible.