From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140403806 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <312992F6.588D@lfwc.lockheed.com> Ken Garlington writes: ***Definitely off topic, but: > The other two cases are more recent and involve pilot-induced > oscillations leading to an aircraft crash. In both cases, the press > widely reported (in at least one case, quoting a senior executive at > one company) that "the software got confused." However, the error > in both cases was due to an interaction of the control law model, > which can be implemented in either hardware or software, and the > pilot. (The pilot will probably say the control laws were wrong; the > control law people will probably say that the pilot operated the > system outside its' limits. Both are probably right :). >From experience I can say that PIO can definitely "suck you in" under certain circumstances. In particular, when flying formation as wing in, say parade position, you can think relative motion to lead is due to lead not being "smooth" when in fact it is you who are flailing around and causing the problem to get worse with each "correction". Of course this only happens in early training. :-) /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com