FLY BY WIRE
by WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE · first published 2010
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…standpoint. He made the right decision to ditch in the Hudson. Once that decision was made, it was just a long glide. Plenty of room. He had the full Airbus flight control system doing most of the work. Read "Fly By Wire", by Langewiesche, which goes into this in great detail. The Ethiopian Air pilots faced a very tough problem. They were nosing down for an unknown reason, the standard recovery procedure didn't work,…
on “Ethiopian Max Crash Simulator Scenario Stuns Pilots” ↗William Langewiesche on aviation is always worth reading. For more background on the technology, read his "Fly by Wire", which explains why the "miracle on the Hudson" water landing was mostly the work of the computers. This article discusses the other side of cockpit automation, in the context of the Air France 447…
on “AF447: how a series of small errors turned a Airbus cockpit into a death trap” ↗That aircraft was mostly landed by the Airbus stability control system. The pilot's job was to make the decision to land it there. Read the book "Fly by Wire", by William Langewiesche.
on “Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close”” ↗…produced with a sidestick. But that was so the pilot could control it during high-G maneuvers. Airbus's use of it has been controversial for years. For a good overview of the Airbus control system, read "Fly by Wire", by William Langewiesche. But that wasn't the problem with Lion Air. Airspeed. Attitude. Vertical speed. Altitude. If the pilot is operating on wrong information for any of those, they may lose control…
on “How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control” ↗…ironically, William Langewiesche (whose reputation for aviation is based, aside from being a pilot himself, on his father, Wolfgang Langewiesche) wrote a book on US Airways 1549: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_by_Wire
on “My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine” ↗See "Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson", by William Langewiesche. He points out that pulling the stick all the way back in a near-stall is what you're supposed to do in an Airbus. That tells…
on “The spinning ATR plane crash in Brazil” ↗