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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: Ken Garlington's message of Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:23:02 +0000
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- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:59:26 GMT
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- In article <312992F6.588D@lfwc.lockheed.com> Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> writes:
-
- ***Definitely off topic, but:
-
- > The other two cases are more recent and involve pilot-induced
- > oscillations leading to an aircraft crash. In both cases, the press
- > widely reported (in at least one case, quoting a senior executive at
- > one company) that "the software got confused." However, the error
- > in both cases was due to an interaction of the control law model,
- > which can be implemented in either hardware or software, and the
- > pilot. (The pilot will probably say the control laws were wrong; the
- > control law people will probably say that the pilot operated the
- > system outside its' limits. Both are probably right :).
-
- From experience I can say that PIO can definitely "suck you in" under
- certain circumstances. In particular, when flying formation as wing
- in, say parade position, you can think relative motion to lead is due
- to lead not being "smooth" when in fact it is you who are flailing
- around and causing the problem to get worse with each "correction".
- Of course this only happens in early training. :-)
-
- /Jon
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