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- A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
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- UK
The control systems of the A400M aircraft are heavily automated.
Each engine is run by a separate computer called an Electronic Control Unit.
The ECUs take the pilot's inputs and make the engines they control respond in the optimum way.
The parameter files are used by the ECUs to interpret sensor readings about the turning force generated by each engine - the torque - which is used to make the attached propellers spin.
Without the files, the ECUs cannot make sense of this data.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33078767
Each engine is run by a separate computer called an Electronic Control Unit.
The ECUs take the pilot's inputs and make the engines they control respond in the optimum way.
The parameter files are used by the ECUs to interpret sensor readings about the turning force generated by each engine - the torque - which is used to make the attached propellers spin.
Without the files, the ECUs cannot make sense of this data.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33078767
