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Old 01-21-2015, 12:09 PM
barry12345 barry12345 is offline
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Originally Posted by Dudesky View Post
Remember the Paris Airshow?
Yes unfortunately. The poor pilot tried to spool the engines up for climbing out during a low fly by.

Instead the computer determined the plane was in a landing mode and the computors refused to implement the command. At least that was my general understanding at the time. I imagine some software got re written.

My issue is if that plane had not gone to the airshow. One wonders if the same plane on a landing approach had decided to go around while full of passengers. It takes just enough time to realize the engines are not spooling up on command to get into really serious problems then.

I have even heard of some pilots at one time not really recommending this plane compared to boeing products. I suspect like them there possibly could be other issues not uncovered in their systems. I do not know if the cause of the sudden random uncalled for right banks have been totally solved yet.

Although I do not keep up with aviation. I am also lacking in how the Boeings Dreamliner solved the battery issue with it. There is absolutely no way you can really have a totally safe lithium polymer type of battery.

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