Re: Pilots were no longer in charge
Reading this, something occurs to me...
So this system was freaking out because the single sensor had malfunctioned.
Why the heck wasn't it also noticing readings from the altimeter? Because pitching the plane nose down to level out the flight doesn't correspond with nine hundred metres, seven hundred, five hundred, oh shit.
Additionally, if the system is going to be controlling the ailerons, it must have some way of sensing the actual current position of the ailerons to know how to move them. You can't be flying in a straight line if the flaps are in the "descend" position. It just isn't logical.
So it seems that there should have been sufficient telemetry from elsewhere to inform the system that things were going really seriously wrong. Why was none of this information considered in tandem with the sensor readings?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
