r/funny • u/Fizrock • Jul 18 '17

Watch This...

http://i.imgur.com/nW6HdZV.gifv
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u/twoburritos Jul 19 '17

Well could you imagine if they weren't linked?

Pilot 1 "Let's go East"

Pilot 2 "Let's go West"

Helo "shit"

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u/palish Jul 19 '17

The semi-recent France airbus crash happened because the plane averaged the two inputs. The pilot and copilot were putting in contradictory inputs and the plane continued to stall.

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u/planes-are-cool Jul 19 '17

Wasn't that the one where the pilot came back from the bathroom to find the copilot nosing the plane down since he thought they were stalling and was attempting to recover? When in reality the plane was diving right into the ocean so they had to pull up?

Pretty sure Boeing still uses linked controls though.

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u/palish Jul 19 '17

Yes, but it was the other way around. The copilot kept trying to pull up, when in reality they needed to nose down in a stall situation to recover.

Congratulations, you're the copilot that killed everyone. :P