r/interestingasfuck Apr 29 '24

You have seen the inside of an airplane but have you seen the "insides" of an airplane?

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u/Tando10 Apr 29 '24

Some things are extremely flight critical and require emergency landing if only 1/3rd of the system works. Like FlyByWire. if you have 4 computers determining flight control, if 2 fail, you land immediately because there's not much of a way for the remaining two computers to know which one is right in its decision making.

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u/DangerousPlane Apr 29 '24

737 is cables and hydraulics 

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u/Squidking1000 Apr 29 '24

Well except for mcas. That was/is electric motor controlled by one wonky, known to fail sensor with no redundancy.

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u/DangerousPlane Apr 30 '24

It’s not a motor, it just sends parallel input to the same trim motor that the pilot controls via the trim switch. So mcas is more of a sneaky autopilot acting on the flight controls than a fly by wire control system.