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Bengaluru, Dec 16: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Thursday awarded a Rs 2,400 crore contract to Bharat Electronics Limited for the manufacture and supply of 20 types of airborne electronic systems for the LCA Tejas Mk1A fighter aircraft programme. The order spanning five years from 2023 to 2028 involves supply of critical avionic Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) related to Digital Flight Control Computers, Air Data Computers, Weapon Computers, LRUs related to Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) and Head Up Display, a BEL […]
Inaccurate? >> absolutely. i mean the pitot tubes that we're referring to that send air speed information to the air data computers and send to the instrument panel if you have erroneous information you'll get erroneous warnings. things that won't make sense. that's why that air france 447 was an interesting accident in that regard. they were getting such conflicting information and the computers were too. >> so the plane has multiple sensor multiple pitot tubes, et cetera. what happens this pitot tube says this this pitot tube says something else, the computer says i don't know who to believe...
Pressure, and the company issued this statement. further operational checks were necessary following a modification to the 757 air data computers. all systems have been fully functional. the faa is saying that the skies are going to get a lot more crowded. by 2021, ten years from now, the government predicts that there will be 1 billion airline passengers. that's a lot of boarding passes. it could also mean a lot of delays, complaints, and, yes, lost bags. but by then, you'll probably have more rights in the air, we can only hope, and on the tarmac, too. the air passenger bill of rights should...
What's happened? >> that's about one quarter of their entire main line planes. and these travel across the country. a computer system that measures the altitude and the speed and then feeds that into the autopilot, you want that computer working. and we should note, they have been working. the issue here, though, is that they need some additional maintenance. united put out a statement saying further operational checks were necessary following a modification to the 757 air data computers. all systems have been fully functional. however, because of this maintenance that hadn't been done, united...