Timeline for Why is landing on a carrier not handled by a computer?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 5, 2015 at 14:03 | vote | accept | Arseni Mourzenko | ||
| Mar 5, 2015 at 13:25 | comment | added | AndrejaKo | @MSalters But does Moore's law hold true for safety-critical systems as well? Versions of Intel's 80386 were produced up until 2007 for satellite use, more than 20 years after introduction of the version for commercial marketplace. From what I've seen, at least in civilian safety-critical systems, tried and tested beats greatest and latest. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 15:34 | history | edited | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Obviously an old report does not reflect current technology
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 13:27 | comment | added | MSalters | Quoting a 1986 report on automated systems is ignoring 20 generations of Moore's Law. That is a factor of one million in processing capability. Pointless, then. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 6:38 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @MainMa: As I understand it, landing on a carrier actually is tricky enough to demand just about as much practice as possible. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 21:54 | history | edited | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changing the answer a good bit
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| Mar 3, 2015 at 21:19 | comment | added | Arseni Mourzenko | @VolkerSiegel: not necessarily. In Paris subway on partially automated lines where there are still drivers in the cabin, once per day, every driver should drive the train manually without computer assistance to make sure drivers keep the reflexes and are able to control the train in a case of a disaster. The same may work for the pilots. This being said, landing on a carrier might be so difficult that it requires constant, and not occasional practice. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 21:01 | comment | added | Volker Siegel | @MainMa That would mean the pilots get not much routine on the kind of landing used in fight/disaster situations, right? | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 20:32 | comment | added | Arseni Mourzenko | Note that there is a gap between a controlled landing (my question) and the lack of pilot at all (linked question). Of course, we absolutely need a pilot when things go wrong, but probably not much when landing in a non-fight, non-disaster situation. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 20:31 | history | edited | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2015 at 20:24 | history | answered | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |