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To: john mirse

I can only tell you how SHOCKED I am at many, many stories in recent years about plane crashes by PILOTS WHO DON’T KNOW HOW TO FLY A PLANE!!!


69 posted on 03/27/2015 3:07:50 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: BunnySlippers
I can only tell you how SHOCKED I am at many, many stories in recent years about plane crashes by PILOTS WHO DON’T KNOW HOW TO FLY A PLANE!!!

Many years ago I watched a documentary on designing military fighter aircraft.

They realized they could make the planes do incredible things but doubted a pilot would be up to the task of doing some maneuvers that were not intuitive.

Then they realized a computer could do it, so they figured out how to train a pilot to control the computer.

It looks like that has crept into commercial flying, so a computer can make Commercial planes go through maneuvers that would not upset the passengers, like rolls, hard turns or deep dives or a combination of those. - Tom

79 posted on 03/27/2015 3:27:26 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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