A lot of planes are often in unstable conditions. with computers however, these situations can be handled....?

Question

....so what does the computer make different then the man's hand ?

Answer 1

Speed and accuracy. The avionics can react in milliseconds to prevent a situation from getting beyond salvation, they keep everything balanced on a knife edge.

Some modern fighters are so unstable that if they get far enough out of control that a human would notice they would already be too far gone to recover... just heading the wrong way fast. We used to joke that you might as well hook the fail light on the primary flight computers directly to the ejector seat on Eurofighter. We weren't entirely joking.

Answer 2

Well take the old 707,s or dc-8s,727,100, early 737,s didnt have computers, but they were never hand flown unless it warranted it like take off and landings,otherwise they threw it on auto-pilot and kicked back for a few hours,

As far as the computers they have come along way. Im sure you have the flight simulator game, Can you fly the plane without your gps. Can your find a field and land and know where your at without the computer...

Back then the navigator used charts,speed heading, etc and he was a computer..some had scopes for stars to navigate by. and picking up radio signals for a field, I guess the l-10-11 was one of the first early computerized planes that i know of.. it could almost land itself.

You walk into a 717 these days and it like bill gates was locked in the room for a year in a dc-9,

To answer your question it has made flying much easier today than it was just 20 years ago.. It has eliminated the 3rd man the navigator, yes they had 3 men in the dc-10,s and l-10-11,s...and computers made the dc-10 an md-10

Answer 3

Chris H nailed it right. The response time of the modern avionics is several times faster than the human body. Besides, the human mind cannot continuously make the calculations required to trim an unstable aircraft.

Make no mistakes, the computer is never smarter than the human mind, but it is way faster and accurate. And in this situation, it is speed and accuracy that is required.

Answer 4

?? your witch planes the air buses or the fighter or everyday use planes like bi planes


if you are talking about those planes the the different is the computer is installed with special software i think that is received by the (A.T.C) air traffic control and with human hands the pilot is informed on what to do by air traffic control or if communications are offline the they depend on altitude and what they all ready know plus with the radar in fighters in the front it is easier for the computer to tell what height and the terrain the fighter is flying in so they can give better appearance on what to expect Evan for really rocky snowy and Even some harsh storms like hail heavy rain of other stuff like that and with the mans hands they are able to control witch way the plane go's but can't always recognize the terrain they are in so that is the different between computer and a mans hands

hope it helps

i dont know if that is true i just stick to the books

Answer 5

Look at Chris H's answer~! ^^