Air France 447 Final Moments

[Bundy]

From Avcom...

http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=89190




This part really stood out for me:

"Unlike the control yokes of a Boeing jetliner, the side sticks on an Airbus are ‘asynchronous’ that is, they move independently. "If the person in the right seat is pulling back on the joystick, the person in the left seat doesn't feel it," says Dr. David Esser, a professor of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle. "Their stick doesn't move just because the other (stick) does, unlike the old-fashioned mechanical systems like you find in small planes, where if you turn one, the other one turns the same way."

[Hoke]

But the plane is in "dual pilot input" mode. So the computer is averaging his forward stick inputs with those of Bonin

How can you possibly fly a plane by committee?! That's mad.

[Alkemac]

There is a reason they call it the "Scarebus"....