Re: Airbus pic

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On Feb 7, 4:15 pm, krw <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On a sunny day (Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:54:37 -0500) it happened krw
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In article <fo9j77$h8...@xxxxxxxx>, pNaonStpealm...@xxxxxxxxx
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On a sunny day (Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:11:35 +0000) it happened Eeyore
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Jan Panteltje wrote:

Martin Griffith wrote:

this looks like fun
http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htm

It is still a bit primitive, I'd ask for full voice control:
'Computer fly me to LA'.

That will save on pilot salaries too, cabin crew can do it.

Until there's a problem of course.

Crash and burn !

Graham

Well crash and burn also happens with pilots if there is a problem..
But computers will not forget to put the gear down.

Certainly they do, or the opposite.  Why is it that the only flight
operation on the Space Shuttle that the computers CANNOT do is put
the gear down?  ...because it's too important to get it right -
once.

Space shuttle is not exactly the latest and best in engineering.
3 month to find and replace a defective connector?

You're not going to get much better software engineering than that
of the SS-OBS system.  Your point is, as usual, completely
irrelevant.

But the SS computers don't do much.

Only everything on the shuttle, with the exception of the landing
gear. Not much, my ass.

My former employer at one time modified and programmed laptop
computers to handle mundane tasks that were beyond the capability of
the onboard processor; things like showing the shuttle position above
a map of the earth, or maintaining a database keeping track of where
the food and supplies were stored.

*Showing* is the key word. The shuttle computers make sure it is
where it's supposed to be. They're not Star Wars games.

The latter was acronymed PGSC (Payload and General Stores Computer),
and NASA was not amused at our pronunciation (Pigs in Space).

;-)

--
Keith
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