JAL has never bought European? What about all those A300s I saw in Tokyo that they are now selling off for freighter conversion?

I disagree, and I know I am not the only one.
Their 747 outwardly look fresh and magnificent in their colours.

Inside the ones I’ve flown on in the past few years and very recently, they look tired and tatty in places. Cabin over haul needed as well for the 747’s perhaps?

http://www.pylons.org/

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Icing certification requirements are discussed in the interim report (2) : here – 1.18.5 System certification page 60. Seems like ice should never build up on a pitot according to JAR requirements and Airbus design exceeds those requirements.

The report does mention the failure of the probes though.

Anyway, this is all drifting off the original purpose of this thread. It’s turning into a body function over distance competition and there’s a headwind developing.

So how does this even remotely qualify you to comment on what was happening in the air & what it was like for the crew up there? It doesn’t.

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That’s all of us then unless we fly A330’s and have been in the same conditions.

And, arguably, more efficiently (fuel burn, nav performance etc) as well even during normal conditions.

Hmm.

FADEC uses static pressure for example even for ‘core’ computations. Static pressure is affected by external fluctuations. Therefore, an external influence. Normal control law is derived from sensors from the aircrafts digital air data computers i.e airspeed, altitude etc. All external influences.

Even using basic control law, ram air is a major influence on thrust produced no matter what state the control is on. You can’t get a much bigger external influence that the mass of air entering the inlet!

EDIT: As an aside, does the A330 have standby pitot static instruments available?

Automated systems won’t stop accidents I think the inference was. CFIT was/is the biggest cause of accidents, no?

Whilst EGPWS/TAWS isn’t so much automated, it has reduced these accidents hasn’t it? Which were perhaps a result of pilot error, no matter how experienced?

I agree that I would rather have 2 experienced and more importantly, well trained pilots up front though. I never questioned that.