Airbus A380 Landing at SFO

[TB Roye]

Here is a video of the inaugural approach and landing of he Airbus A380 at San Francisco International. That thing is so automated the pilot uses a keyboard to enter information. I did what I think was joy stick near each pilot. Hope they Solid State Storage instead of Hard Drives and good Anti Virus protection. It is a little lengthy but good the Pilot cannot see the ground attendants to guide him, uses a Christmas tree set up.

www.wimp.com/approachlanding/

Tom

[twistsol]

And an article yesterday discusses the University of Texas Aerospace engineering department demonstrating spoofing a false GPS signal to a ship at sea making it think it was somewhere else and having the unknowing crew adjust course.

This all seems like bit too much reliance on technology.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07...ofing_luggage/

[Tom Slick]

That is an interesting video. Other than the keyboard , that is how most heavy aircraft are flown. The pilot gives the computer an input, the computer makes a decision and coordinates control the aircraft.

GPS spoofing is also a subject from a James Bond movie.

[LCHIEN]

Nice landing they should all be like that at SFO...
Very smooth and professional, they keep track of their height all the way down to the ground. Hard to imagine how the other crew must have botched it. This was runway 28 R(ight), parallel to and just next to runway 28 L(eft) where the crash occured. The linked original shows a date of Auust 2012, well before the July 2013 crash.

[leehljp]

And an article yesterday discusses the University of Texas Aerospace engineering department demonstrating spoofing a false GPS signal to a ship at sea making it think it was somewhere else and having the unknowing crew adjust course.

This all seems like bit too much reliance on technology.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07...ofing_luggage/

I read that article also. I am sure we haven't seen the end of such attempts either - in the wrong hands.

Still, I like technology and it certainly has come a long way since the 60's and 70's and even in the last few years compared to the '90s.

[durango dude]

I've been lucky enough to fly on A-380 twice!

I've flow Dubai to JFK ---- and Frankfurt to Houston.

These planes are absolutely HUGE.

Lufthansa service is fantastic, and highly recommended.