Originally Posted by
Barley
Everyone loves to bring up AF 447. All three pitot tubes froze due to the pilots putting themselves in a situation well beyond the certification requirements of the airplane. That accident could have just as easily been a Boeing product.
The pilot tubes being frozen could’ve been a Boeing problem-nothing that happened after that could’ve. You have immediate tactile cues on a Boeing that the Airbus doesn’t have. If autopilot moves? So does the yoke, so does the elevator column, so do the throttles -part of the problem on the Air France was neither pilot recognized what was going on between their two control sticks and what the computer was doing...they were fighting each other and didn’t know it. That wouldn’t happen on a Boeing. You feel everything, regardless of who has the controls.