Comment by coredog64
5 years ago
That’s not correct. For a long time, Boeing and Airbus had wildly different philosophies about how aircraft should be flown. I’m not going to pick a side as there are trade offs to both approaches, but there were a LOT of teething problems with the Airbus approach. I think we’ve settled down now and have a better handle on how to train for either approach. Of course, Boeing has also picked up (or been forced to adopt) pieces of the strategy used by Airbus.
Could you explain these differences to someone with no experience in flying?
Airbus approach: the flight computer should place limits on the control authority of the pilots to prevent them from making unsafe inputs
Boeing: The pilots should be the final authority in the cockpit; automation will warn against unsafe control inputs but not prevent them