An A320 gets three devices to brake
- The wheel brakes. Click here to download the pdf of 2005 Airworthiness Directive is published by the DGAC on behalf of EASA, Airworthiness Authority of the State of Design. This is directive is not directly related to the Brazil crash.
- The spoilers or air-brake: small panels located on the wings that help braking by increasing the drag of the wings and giving the aircraft's wheels better traction.
- The thrust reversers: engine device ejecting engine airflow forward, thus braking the plane.
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Sounds like this may be another case of the A320’s computer taking over and piling the airplane up, as one of the first ones did while being flown by Airbus’s chief test pilot.
ReplyDeleteAny aircraft that allows a computer to override the pilot’s actions is not an airplane that I would want to fly or ride on, although I have very nervously climbed aboard a few of them.
Airbus aircraft are over-engineered crap.