Re: Future of Electronics In Aviation

On Jun 19, 3:16=A0pm, "BDS" <skyh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Le Chaud Lapin" <jaibudu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> [I am an electrical engineer]
>
> Don't take this wrong but do you have any practical experience?

About average.

> [simple diode fixes the problem.]
>
> Not necessarily.
>
> [My first thought when hearing stories like this is...."that engineer
> should have known that."]
>
> My first thought is "the engineers probably knew this, so why didn't
they
> use a diode?"

Good question. I would be curious to hear what the engineer
responsible for employing the diode has to say.

> [Sometimes this does not happen,
> and the result is a missing diode because s/he did not think about
> kickback induction, something would immediately come to mind of
> experienced, bright, electrical engineer.]
>
> Right, and we all know that the auto manufacturers do not have any
> experienced and bright electrical engineers.

Well, certainly they have enough to know when to employ a 10-cent
diode to prevent massive recall 1000's of vehicles. ;)

> [If you had told a mother of 3 that, in the year 1700, she would be
> flying at 10,000 meters, in a machine pressurized with air, at 500kts,
> propelled by two devices that burn a combustible liquid at
> temperatures exceeding 4000F....snip......she might reasonably claim
> that the whole idea is just too risky]
>
> Well of course she would - that didn't become possible until the
1960s...

Which is the crux of the question:

What makes something possible in the future, but not the present?

-Le Chaud Lapin-