From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
Subject: OT?: AF 447 and avionics software
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:29:12 +0200
Date: 2009-06-04T11:29:12+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78pifuF1k9uvuU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
I'm sure most of us are following the news on this issue. I just read an
article where an 'expert' questions "damn computers". Particularly this
quote:
"In these fly-by-wire systems, one never really knows if one has checked out
all possible combinations of events to make sure that the computer properly
reacts,"
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1902421,00.html
Frankly I know nothing about the aviation standards for software/computer
use, but I suspect it is somewhat more strict than "one never really knows".
I mean, surely you can't test everything, but I guess one can be reasonably
confident on the system design!
Now, there's a trend forming pointing to the ADIRU [1] unit, because of
recent incidents like the Qantas flight mentioned in the article. I'm not
sure there's really verified reasons to point to it yet but, trying to stay
on topic:
I think Airbus is mainly Ada, right? Do you know some good place to read
about its software systems?
What about these ADIRU units, are they delivered to Airbus by some provider
or are of their own built?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Data_Inertial_Reference_Unit
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-04 9:29 Alex R. Mosteo [this message]
2009-06-04 11:02 ` OT?: AF 447 and avionics software Martin
2009-06-04 18:20 ` roderick.chapman
2009-06-06 17:34 ` Martin
2009-06-04 11:58 ` Egil Høvik
2009-06-04 13:25 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2009-06-04 19:02 ` Olivier Scalbert
2009-06-04 20:17 ` Matteo Bordin
2009-06-05 7:22 ` MRE
2009-06-06 10:38 ` sjw
2009-06-06 10:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-06-07 11:16 ` Florian Weimer
2009-06-07 13:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-06-10 6:11 ` MRE
2009-06-10 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-06-07 8:33 ` MRE
2009-06-05 9:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-06-05 20:35 ` Tim Rowe
2009-06-09 21:06 ` Olivier Scalbert
2009-06-09 22:14 ` Martin
2009-06-10 6:12 ` MRE
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