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t0mas88today at 9:31 AM1 replyview on HN

No I meant designing a new aircraft with a new type certificate instead of creating the A320neo generation on the same type certificate. The parent comment wondered why Airbus would keep the old computers around, I tried to explain why they keep a lot of things the same and only incrementally add variants. Adding a variant allows them to be flown with the same type rating or with only differences training (that's what EASA calls it, not sure about the US term) which is much less costly.


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darkwatertoday at 10:44 AM

Asking from ignorance: shouldn't the computer design be an implementation detail to the captain, while the interface used by who pilots stays the same for that type of airplane? I understand physical changes in the design need a retraining but the computer?

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