Yeah, I call it "the-sudden-brick syndrome." Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wonko the Sane" <don.b...@gmail.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: thoughts on NY plane crash? > Watching streaming coverage from a Buffalo tv station. They mentioned > something interesting -- that the autopilots are so sophisticated these days > it can continue to compensate for problems that a pilot flying hands-on > would notice (aircraft constantly going out of trim, etc.) until it is too > late and the autopilot suddenly disconnects because it is out of limits. > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu>wrote: > > > > > So it's not implausible that they are flying along, nothing at all seems to > > be out of the ordinary, and then they just fall right out of the sky? > > > > Allan > > -- > > 1983 300D > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090213/cd 846351/attachment.html> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
