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Subject: Re: Shuttle computers break down during glide tests
Message-ID: <1991May3.121058.1@dev8a.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 3 May 91 12:10:58 GMT
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In article <1991May2.200211.2157@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, dbm@icarus.jsc.nasa.gov (Brad Mears) writes:
> In article <SHAFER.91May1133230@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>, shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
> |> 
> |> There is an autoland but nobody uses it.  MSBLS, etc.  The pilots really
> |> like to fly it themselves.
> 
> The interesting point is that "nobody uses it".  Other than a few activities 
> which _must_ be performed by the crew, the flight software is capable of flying
> it all the way to the ground.  Why?  As far as I can tell, the autoland software
> is as trustworthy as the rest of it.


Pilots like to pilot, even if their craft is perfectly automated. 

Michael