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![]() "Tarver Engineering" wrote in message ... "Gene Storey" wrote in message ... "Tarver Engineering" wrote The pilot flying keeps his feet on the rudder pedals when hand-flying the aircraft. An unsafe practice, for modern airliners. Do you have a source for this? Seems far fetched, but I don't fly airlines, In 1972 FAA instituted an automation of airliners requirment. Enterpolating the number of passengers killed in that hand flying age to the number of revenue flights today, hand flying predicts killing aproximately 5,000 passengers a year. Instead, man in the loop automated systems have turned in two years of zero killed; for US common carriers since 1997. Consider, you are more in hazard of dying of natural causes during an Airliner ride, than you are to die in a crash. The statistics are such today that a two man cockpit has become a statistical life saver, as a small number of Captains expire each year enroute. And the logical conclusion from that would be, since the befofementioned pitot system tendency to become clogged with mudbees is such that the elevator load feel system is an absolute guarantee for being locked into a condition wheras the pitch attitude is somewhat determined by the ratio of the lift vectors as seen from the perspective of the outflow valves. And that is a very serious condition, indeed. JK |
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