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Originally Posted by Wormius
I was just questioning whether there wasn't some system that prevented that from occuring in certain scenarios - eg) I am sure while the plane is parked at the gate, the pilot can't just retract the landing gear and force the airplane do a belly flop... or can they?
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I see what you are saying, and of course there are systems that prevent the gear from being retracted on the ground.
But it seems you are thinking of a pressurization system that can't be adjusted or overridden by the pilots. Then eventually we would be having the discussion about the system one day malfunctioning, and questioning why there wasn't some sort of an override that the pilots could use to regain control over the faulty automated system.