Air Crash Investigation

[HoHoHo]

I've watched this series over the years and I'm watching the Hudson River landing as I write.

Now forgive me if I'm wrong but the pilots are pulling and pushing on a traditional yoke, well done chaps.

However, it was an Airbus A320 from memory and they have a joy-stick, not the same stick as a 737 for example.

Do the researchers not actually bother to do any or do they not give a st?

Either do the job properly or not at all, and if they can't get basic details right what else is jackanory?

Rant over.........and breath.....

[B17NNS]

I've watched the majority of these with a morbid fascination.

Seems the majority of crashes could be solved by setting flaps to 15 and pushing the nose down.

[Nuclearsquash]

I'm pretty sure they use the same cockpit set for all the crashes.. i think even the episode about the mid-air collision over the grand canyon in the 50s showed digital gauges :S

[Badgerboy]

Nuclearsquash said:

I'm pretty sure they use the same cockpit set for all the crashes.. i think even the episode about the mid-air collision over the grand canyon in the 50s showed digital gauges :S

They try and tweak the gauges to match the aircraft, but yes it's still a digital representation of a analogue gauge.

I don't dwell on it too much, building a bespoke cockpit for each episode would be costly and honestly their target audience will not notice the difference between side stick or central yoke. (Although they have represented Airbus aircraft with a side stick previously)

[HoHoHo]

Badgerboy said:

Nuclearsquash said:

I'm pretty sure they use the same cockpit set for all the crashes.. i think even the episode about the mid-air collision over the grand canyon in the 50s showed digital gauges :S

They try and tweak the gauges to match the aircraft, but yes it's still a digital representation of a analogue gauge.

I don't dwell on it too much, building a bespoke cockpit for each episode would be costly and honestly their target audience will not notice the difference between side stick or central yoke. (Although they have represented Airbus aircraft with a side stick previously)

I'm pretty sure they've used the sim just up the road from me for Boeing aircraft previously (I'm referring to the ex Jaguar 737 sim which has now been converted to a 737-800 cockpit).

Surely in the interests of detail and getting it right it wouldn't be hard to rent the right aircraft type?

It's just sloppy IMO.