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New [citation needed]
When have coupled controls actually averted an actual disaster that was actually happening?

Or is this a tiger-repelling rock?

Genuine question.
New Read with comprehension much?
Read the Subject Line of the post to which I was responding and *then* try to tell me that I need a citation. Er, okay, maybe I do for people on your side of the Atlantic. I keep forgetting that English is a foreign language to you.

Edit: In case you *still* don't get it. Having coupled controls *does* let each pilot know what the other is doing with the control stick. How can you not see that?
Expand Edited by mmoffitt March 26, 2015, 01:01:14 PM EDT
Expand Edited by mmoffitt March 26, 2015, 01:01:47 PM EDT
New Just answer the question.
I'm not disputing that coupled yokes are coupled.

Clue: snark is best delivered without a massive helping of comprehension fail.
New Okay. I'll play.
Have coupled controls ever saved lives? You bet your ass they have. There is *no* question they have saved lives, hundreds if not thousands of them. Ask any primary flight instructor.
New Assertion.
Dude. Facts. Please. This is just you saying words.

I notice you've broadened the scope to training, which is of course a speciality area and one unrelated to what we were talking about, which is regular commercial flights.
New You brought up a question *I* did NOT make a comment about.
     Airbus - again. - (mmoffitt) - (71)
         It was an old plane -- 24 yo. - (a6l6e6x) - (3)
             That's not old. My airplane is 55 years old! -NT - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                 Yeah, but you don't go up to 40 K feet. - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
                     Well, if you're going to pick nits. ;0) - (mmoffitt)
         And Boeings never crash? - (pwhysall) - (36)
             Sure, but for fatal crashes Airbus wins! - (mmoffitt) - (35)
                 Mein Gott - (malraux)
                 What a massive margin of victory - (pwhysall) - (33)
                     Give Airbus a few more years, it'll be larger. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (32)
                         Will it double? - (pwhysall) - (31)
                             Will it matter? - (mmoffitt) - (30)
                                 Two. Millionths. Of. A. Percent. - (pwhysall) - (29)
                                     before or after you mined a nostril? -NT - (boxley) - (28)
                                         FOUR millionths of a percent! -NT - (pwhysall) - (27)
                                             thats not much of a booger :-) -NT - (boxley)
                                             Numbers-porn; you're usually not so easily deflected to the simplistic ploy. - (Ashton) - (25)
                                                 Hardware can't guarantee that one knows what the other is doing. - (Another Scott) - (14)
                                                     especially when one pilot is locked out the cockpit and the other has no response -NT - (boxley)
                                                     Coupled controls *do* help, though. - (mmoffitt) - (6)
                                                         [citation needed] - (pwhysall) - (5)
                                                             Read with comprehension much? - (mmoffitt) - (4)
                                                                 Just answer the question. - (pwhysall) - (3)
                                                                     Okay. I'll play. - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                                                                         Assertion. - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                                                             You brought up a question *I* did NOT make a comment about. -NT - (mmoffitt)
                                                     'The side stick vs yoke issue is red herring, IMO.' [Fail] - (Ashton) - (5)
                                                         Flying - no. - (Another Scott) - (4)
                                                             And doing that makes *all* the planes safer -NT - (drook)
                                                             Nobody's ever claimed that! - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                                                                 You did read the rest of my post, right? - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                                                     So coupling the controls was too expensive? - (mmoffitt)
                                                 Appealing to facts not in evidence - (pwhysall) - (9)
                                                     You're in-lurve with modrin TLAs like "CRM"--as if That 'cooks the rice' - (Ashton) - (8)
                                                         Thought experiment - (drook) - (2)
                                                             Excellent point; shall need some pondering.. - (Ashton) - (1)
                                                                 Look at the latest research on self-driving cars - (drook)
                                                         OH NOES A MODERN TLA! IT MUST BE SHIT AND RUBBISH - (pwhysall) - (3)
                                                             Yep, two Boeings wrecked by a European. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                                                                 And this is why you fail. -NT - (pwhysall)
                                                             (The CRM idea isn't bollocks, of course) But as a deflection of this issue: - (Ashton)
                                                         Dupe - (pwhysall)
         Horrible image. - (mmoffitt)
         Pilot error indeed - (malraux) - (28)
             Guess he couldn't live with the fact he wasn't flying a Boeing -NT - (drook) - (26)
                 Errg. - (Another Scott) - (25)
                     an assumption is being made that he was unwilling to open he door, he may have been incapacitated -NT - (boxley) - (14)
                         The autopilot was set to an altitude of 100ft while the pilot was out. -NT - (malraux) - (1)
                             Re: The autopilot was set to an altitude of 100ft while the pilot was out. - (Nightowl)
                         That's possible, but unlikely here imo. - (mmoffitt) - (11)
                             from the latest news it appears that it was deliberate -NT - (boxley) - (10)
                                 Re: from the latest news it appears that it was deliberate - (Nightowl) - (9)
                                     I don't know how Europe does it. - (mmoffitt) - (8)
                                         His response was definitely career ending. -NT - (malraux) - (3)
                                             And an affirmation of the physician's finding. -NT - (mmoffitt)
                                             He wanted to go down in spectacular fashion and be remembered - (Nightowl)
                                             Ignore...dupe post. Sorry. -NT - (Nightowl)
                                         Doesn't matter much - (scoenye) - (3)
                                             Excellent points. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                                 Share your unrealistic hopes.. because one. must. - (Ashton)
                                             Flying amortization -vs- Student Loans - (Ashton)
                     Could be you win the thread - (rcareaga) - (9)
                         That and being deemed unfit to fly. - (Nightowl)
                         There are more differences between how the Europeans do it and we than I realized. - (mmoffitt) - (7)
                             blame it on the nazis - (crazy) - (1)
                                 That's a tough one -NT - (drook)
                             NYT sez that.. some slack is cut though, even here. - (Ashton)
                             Zero tolerance is superficially appealing... - (pwhysall) - (3)
                                 This. - (Another Scott) - (2)
                                     Alternates for pilots? - (Ashton) - (1)
                                         Well said. People do need alternatives rather than being kicked to the curb... -NT - (Another Scott)
             Eerie earlier crash. - (Another Scott)

Idiocy is relative.
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