Posted by jakey_bakey 3 days ago
I am sure this has been resolved by now since its from 2020.
I'd ideally like to sleep tonight, thanks.
Reminds me of the F-22 Raptor crossing the International Dateline error in 2007. They were flying a squadron of them from Hawaii to Japan. They crossed the IDL and all nav/fuel systems went down, as well as some communications gear.
They only made it back because they were flying with tankers at time, who led them back to base.
I'm assuming the former.
The safe option might be to avoid the situation, and I could imagine that even if there is a code update it might just make the plane balk at getting ready to take off after a certain amount of uptime.
I have no idea about these things at all but some of the issues seem almost unforgivable to me.
They should work very hard for the industry, and the ultimate end users to regain confidence in them again. I'm not sure they are doing this.
> Sidenote > > Pitch and power is a simple concept. If you have the throttles, say, three-quarters open and the nose of the aeroplane is pointing a few degrees above the horizon, chances are you're probably flying straight and level at a safe speed. Training manuals normally contain a number of precise pitch and power settings (they vary between aeroplane types) so if display systems start failing, pilots can fall back to these with confidence.
That's not what's alarming to me. What's alarming is that the plane could possibly be in a position to be continuously powered on for 51 days in the first place.
They require weekly maintenance which takes them out of service for at least 12 hours.
What we may of as 'constant utilization' is quite different in a regulated fleet environment like airlines.
It is very surprising that how a lot of comments here claim the contrary.
Even when parked for next flight, until resupply and cargo routines are declared, it is also not powered.