View Single Post
  #306  
Old 08-24-2012, 05:51 PM
ACE-OF-ACES's Avatar
ACE-OF-ACES ACE-OF-ACES is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: NM
Posts: 2,248
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by bongodriver View Post
This is just such a typical bloody engineering student and/or young and/or academic engineer attitude, because some maths says there is a problem but pilots don't seem to note any actual problems they bloody try and fix it anyway 'the Spitfire had desireably light controls'.......but we went ahead and made them heavier anyway because according to a graph this thing is unstable.
Fixed that for ya

In that based on my 20 some years of being an engineer

I can tell you that 'most' seasoned engineers have a 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' approach..

Typically it is only the young and or student and or academic types of engineers that 'feel the need' to fix things that are not broken!
__________________
Theres a reason for instrumenting a plane for test..
That being a pilots's 'perception' of what is going on can be very different from what is 'actually' going on.