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How did the pilot fly it for 50 minutes in that state if manual control is impossible?
Because at the start only 1 of the sensors, the one on the nose gear wheel, was stating that the aircraft was on the ground. After multiple touch and go landing attempts, the two main landing gear struts froze as well, and the other sensors also then stated that the aircraft was on the ground. Once that point was reached, only then the aircraft went into ground control flight laws.
When I say modern fighter aircraft don't have "manual control", I mean there's no physical connection between the flight stick and the control surfaces, it all goes through a computer.
everything's computer
That's actually the most simple and concise way to explain it lol.
Understood, thank you for the explanation. Still think a 'go to air mode now' switch on that bug dumb control panel those things have would be a good idea for cases like this.
in the abstract, of course. It's good there is one less of these shitty death machines.
He didn't. He was flying for 50 minutes in the normal and correct "fly-by-wire" settings. Then he did two touch and go landings. On the second touch and go the F-35 decided that he was now on the ground. The new fly-by-wire settings were now in ground mode and this made it impossible to fly the plane properly in the air.
Okay. I am confused why he would be in the call then if things were working. And no I am not gonna read this transcript, sorry to ask you questions about it.
Also, wouldn't a good override for a case like this be: "hey plane, I am not on the ground, resume flight mode you fucking 100+ million dollar piece of shit"? You know, instead of turning the assistance off?
The F-35 is a piece of shit. There were two separate problems.
A. Problem 1 is that the hydraulic fluid froze because of shitty maintenance. It's not supposed to do that. This caused the landing gear to become stuck in a partially retracted position. The pilot couldn't land so he called tech support and spent 50 minutes on a conference call. B. The tech support guys told him to do some touch and go landings to see if that fixes the problem. Basically hitting the landing gear against the runway to see if that fixes it. C. During the 2nd touch and go landing the F-35 decided it was landed and switch the pilot from the flying controls to the ground controls. These are really only meant for doing stuff on the ground like taxi-ing or starting the take-off. You can't fly the plane like this so the pilot ejected and the plane crashed.
Yes there should be an override but also that may not have helped in this situation. Once the F-35 decided it was on the ground he would have only a few seconds to figure out the problem, override the system, and pilot his way out of a crash. What would have been useful is an override he could have set up in advance to prevent the F-35 from switching to ground mode regardless of what its sensors tell it. I'm sure Lockheed can code something like that for a few billion dollars.