DHS hacks 757 from gate
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I totally agree. My argument is for why the f would you want to take the pilot out of the loop of that?
Umm, watch a little too much "Die Hard" on reserve days?
See the post above yours. I'm not talking about today's fleet. I'm talking about all the "pilot-less errplane" people.
Eh, I don't think any airplanes we have *presently* will be autonomous but it's certainly an inevitability on some levels.
I test drove a Tesla Model S and played with the "autopilot" and watched how it works and I'm thoroughly convinced airplanes aren't that far around the corner, pardon the pun.
I test drove a Tesla Model S and played with the "autopilot" and watched how it works and I'm thoroughly convinced airplanes aren't that far around the corner, pardon the pun.
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
This.
I don't think it will be "better" when pilots are gone, quite the contrary, but when the beancounters do the math, and it's cheaper to buy the Tesla Model Q "Flying Bus" then to staff a CRJ...well, then our days are numbered.
ClarkGriswold
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Damnit! I was reading through this hoping no one would talk about Windsor 114. RIPUmm, watch a little too much "Die Hard" on reserve days?
I love me some tinfoil hat conspiracies but holy crap, some of you guys...
gotWXdagain
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Or tie up the CPU to capacity with meaningless fake “tasks” so it has no room to process important aviation stuff, much in the same way a DDoS attack affects a web server. At that point it really only depends on how modular the avionics in your given airplane are, what your new capabilities would be. An MD-80/90? Probably inconvenienced. Any flight deck running everything through a single CPU would be pretty boned, like your screens go away and your fly-by-wire takes a hike boned.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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There's no such thing as a flight deck run through a single CPU. Even Airbus ain't that stupid.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
That’s good to know, though I suspect an Airbus is a little more susceptible to a computer hack than a simple switch to a different navaid and autopilot mode.
Roger Roger
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How many a y’all know anything about FMS/GPS/AFCS/FBW beyond which button to press to get your banana? I don’t, really, but you all sound like typical pilots talking about aircraft systems you don’t understand, or worse, understand just well enough to think you understand them.
Correct. We probably had more computers than a suburban Besf Buy has on display.
There is no single computer running everything. That would be hugely idiotic.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Airbii are mostly still 1980s technology. You're as likely to hack an Airbus through wifi as you are to hack my toaster.
knot4u
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In my experience all of the systems have their own "boxes" and there is almost always two of them in case one fails. The only thing that allows them to communicate is a data bus, either ASCB or ARINC 429, and they are important enough that there are normally at least three bus controllers. As long as nothing wifi related is tied into those buses I don't think there's much of a threat.
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ian
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they hacked into FWV.....somehow they were able to get a connection with it.
ian
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how dare you, we have GPS on all of them.
Dugie8
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This is the avionics diagram for a Sovereign. 4 separate MAUs that have independent inputs from different systems. The MAUs all talk to each other and any hanky panky causes MAU fault CAS messages.
I imagine, short of MDs and classic 737s, most airliners are significantly more complicated.
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