Toad, this is the difference between your uninformed opinions and the truth:
Want to talk Thales pitot tubes? The ones that Airbus KNEW were causing problems more than a year before AF447?
Thales pitots.
Airbus did not choose the Thales pitot tubes on AF 447. They were part of a later government airworthiness directive. In 2007, two years before the accident Airbus recommended that the Thales pitots be replaced. Airbus does not decide when or where Air France repairs its aircraft. The A330 flying AF447 was scheduled to have its pitots replaced when it returned to Paris. It only got half way there.
"When it was introduced in 1994, the Airbus A330 was equipped with pitot tubes, part number 0851GR, manufactured by Goodrich Sensors and Integrated Systems. A 2001 Airworthiness Directive required these to be replaced with either a later Goodrich design, part number 0851HL, or with pitot tubes made by Thales, part number C16195AA. Air France chose to equip its fleet with the Thales pitot tubes. In September 2007, Airbus recommended that Thales C16195AA pitot tubes should be replaced by Thales model C16195BA to address the problem of water ingress that had been observed. Since it was not an Airworthiness Directive, the guidelines allow the operator to apply the recommendations at its discretion. Air France implemented the change on its A320 fleet where the incidents of water ingress were observed and decided to do so in its A330/340 fleet only when failures started to occur in May 2008.
After discussing these issues with the manufacturer, Air France sought a means of reducing these incidents, and Airbus indicated that the new pitot probe designed for the A320 was not designed to prevent cruise level ice-over. In 2009, tests suggested that the new probe could improve its reliability, prompting Air France to accelerate the replacement program, which started on 29 May. F-GZCP was scheduled to have its pitot tubes replaced as soon as it returned to Paris. By 17 June 2009, Air France had replaced all pitot probes on its A330 type aircraft."
Sidesticks with no feedback.
Airbus sidesticks have no feedback because they normally do not control the control surfaces, just command the flight computer. Airbus opted for an aural warning system to prevent dual input.
Throttles that don't move when the computer controls them (auto thrust)
Same as with the stick. The throttles do not normally control the engines. They command a setting to the computer, a climb setting for example. The computer controls the engines to best achieve that. Only when the computer reverts to alternate law or direct law does the throttle actually command the engines directly. On AF447 the computer had no control of the engines. They were in the direct control of the pilots.
stall warning that stops at low airspeed and then begins again when airspeed increases
The pilots had pushed the aircraft so far out of its envelope that the AOA sensors were reporting values beyond what was accepted as valid. The computer (correctly) considered the data unreliable and shut the stall warning off. Later when the pitots had cleared of ice and the AOA reported valid data the computer (correctly) determined that the aircraft was indeed in a stall after all and sounded the warning. The flight computer (correctly) shuts down alarms if it deems the data it receives is unreliable to avoid confusing the pilots with conflicting alarms like on Aeroperu Flight 603 (B757 with its static ports blocked).
no AOA display in the cockpit….
I know of only two airlines who fly Boeings with AOA displays in the cockpit and they're customer custom fittings. It is not a normal option from Boeing (or anyone). Perhaps this has changed in recent years.
Now…stick your fingers back in your ears and commence the la-la-la-la-la
No need. You're la-laing loud enough for both of us.
toad has prvoided facts and data...you've provided your ego that can't admit that your wrong. I'll take a real pilots opinion that flew neither of those planes but flew commercially over your opinion any day
So here we have a Boeing fanboy and a Boeing
employee... In other words objectivity and impartiality manifest!
