I'm no pilot but from what I have seen on carrier landings they come in at near idle, they have to - they need to fly slow, and only just before they touch the deck do they go full power
the pilot was supposed to do a slow low fly-by so he was coming in at low power, When he throttled up the engines to level off the engines didn't respond so he didn't have the power or speed to climp over the trees
had he not come in low he would have been over the trees
-Lasse
Well, there was no attitude indicator. There should have been, and now the French aerospace authority has finally realized it.
On my old turf of medical electronics it was similar. I never understood why patient contact devices had no requirement to be defibrillator-proof. The standard did not call for it. My personal standard always did and I made it pretty clear that I will not design it if that isn't in the specs. One day a SW engineer witness a situation where the doc panicked and applied the paddles without pulling the electrical catheter contact. Nowadays it is in the standard.
But those are crucially important instruments to have. Or would have been :-(
I have met drivers who bragged about being able to drive a little more aggressive on the freeways, reasoning that it's ok since their new cars had antilock brakes.
Well, his tires looked a lot more expensive than mine.
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When we lived in Vermont, I used to tell my wife not to worry when I was driving in the Winter because I had a 4WD truck, "I can drive in anything". "I even have an 'off-road' truck, so I can go off the road."
Of course I wouldn't dare drive in the snow here. In bad weather, they're *NUTS*.
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