[Elecraft] Buggy software OT

[Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT]

The Airbus software won't let the pilot do anything that might break the 
airplane.  The Boeing software doesn't have the same limits.

I believe there are accidents attributed to both.

For critical systems, there are often two different programs, written by 
different groups of programmers, either of which can "fly" the 
airplane.  The assumption is that they'll have different bugs.

On 1/17/2015 12:40 AM, Fred Townsend wrote:
> I think there is a big difference in flight software. In Boeing airplanes
> the pilot is assisted by software. In Airbuses the pilot is allowed to fly
> the airplane if the software thinks he/she is qualified. There has been at
> least one airbus crash blamed on software and several other questionable
> crashes.