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Originally Posted by Lurchi
I would love to see the face of the guy who has to deal with their request for "the reintroduction of cabled controls" into passenger planes.
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Not necessarily calling for the reintroduction of cables into airliners... I'm just saying, there has to be more system redundancy... if it were me piloting the plane - i want more than a wire leading to an electric motor in order to deflect a flight control.
I didnt have any problems hand flying prop-airliners around at 300MPH... and they were cable operated/ non hydraulic boost flight controls.
big difference though between that and a 747 or similar aircraft - but if all electrical goes out i want other options as a pilot than to just ride the thing down.
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Originally Posted by Lurchi
it is pretty safe to say, that it takes a little bit more than lightning to bring down such a plane.
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Boy do i ever know that first hand
once we lost every MFD and Display in the cockpit for a good 20 seconds in hard night IMC - it was an interesting experience
I'll point you to December 8th 1962, Pan Am Boeing 707 - a lightning strike ignited a holding fuel tank and caused the aircraft to explode mid air.
I'll also point out that severe enough turbulence can bring down an aircraft of any size.