Bank Angle Awareness Warning System
Description[edit]
A Bank Angle Awareness Warning System (BAWS) is an electronic voice designed to alert the pilots if a plane is over banking (banking too steeply), also warning the pilots that the plane is about to turn over. The voice sounds something like “BANKING” or “BANK ANGLE”, the voice continues to alert the pilots until the plane is level again.
How it started[edit]
Back in the old days, many planes have crashed because of over banking so eventually, the FAA created a warning device called the Bank Angle Awareness Warning System.[citation needed]
How it detects over banking[edit]
On commercial flights, there is a device at the bottom of the aircraft, and if the pilots turn the plane, the device detects if the plane is over banking beyond 80 degrees to the right or left, if it over banks, then the warning system sounds
Not always recoverable[edit]
Usually the warning system occurs when the plane is uncontrollable usually when the plane is having what's called Dutch roll when the plane is rolling side to side. Even worse is that if the plane is over banking, then the plane could roll inverted and cause the plane to go into a nosedive and crash
Multiple reasons[edit]
Some causes can be caused by too much wind, Pilot error or even an engine falling off
Other warning devices[edit]
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- Ground Proximity Warning System: “WHOOP WHOOP PULL UP”
- terrain awareness and warning system: “TERRAIN, TERRAIN, PULL UP”
See also[edit]
- Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS)
- terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS)
- Adam Air 574
- Japan Airlines Flight 123
- South African Airways Flight 295
- Tenerife Airport Disaster
- TWA Flight 800
- Bitching Betty
- United Airlines Flight 232
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