[AR] Re: Flight Controller Features
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:07:11 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Monroe L. King Jr. wrote:
Buzz made a boo boo and left on the docking radar and that's what
overloaded the flight control system.
Actually, no, not quite -- this confuses the Apollo 10 gyrations with the
Apollo 11 overload. On Apollo 11, leaving the rendezvous radar in "Auto"
mode was deliberate and done in accordance with a recent change to the
flight procedures. It turned out to be unwise -- some of the details had
not been thought through properly -- but it wasn't a crew mistake.
So if we cant discuss irrelevant issues and things unrelated to working
on this controller for all of rocketry for the betterment of everyone.
Then it's not worth discussing?
Thread topics drift -- that's just the way a public discussion works.
Get used to it; deal with it. Complaining about it is a waste of screen
space. However, if the topic has drifted enough, it's polite to change
the Subject line to flag the fact (and it's reasonable to complain when
people don't do that).
Moreover, it's not clear that this is irrelevant (which is why I haven't
changed the Subject on this posting). Particularly when control software
is trying to do a whole bunch of tasks -- and the list of ideas mentioned
for this package has been lengthy -- surprise system overload leading to
misbehavior is quite a realistic possibility. How much should be done
about that possibility is a judgement call, but questions like what might
be done and how (and whether it's worthwhile) *are* on topic. It may not
be quite what you expected or were most interested in, but it's not
irrelevant.
Henry
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