What occurs if all the Flight Control Computers fail?

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When all Flight Control Computers fail, the airplane goes into Back-up Mode. In this situation, the aircraft's flight control system has built-in redundancies designed to maintain control even if the primary systems are compromised. Back-up Mode allows the pilot to retain some level of control over the aircraft by relying on alternate systems and direct control inputs.

This transition is critical because it helps ensure continued operability of the aircraft in an emergency. It allows pilots to maintain flight control using simplified functions that are not as dependent on the primary flight control computers.

Manual Mode, on the other hand, would typically imply a complete loss of automated control, whereby pilots would need to rely solely on their manual flying skills without any assistance, which is not a mode that occurs automatically in the Falcon 7X when the primary controls fail. In the case of uncontrollability, that would imply a complete system failure, but the design of the Falcon 7X incorporates features to prevent complete loss of control. Activating Emergency Procedures would usually be an action taken in response to a failure rather than the aircraft's automatic response to total failure of the flight control computers.

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