Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
In the event the pitot covers were left on there was no airspeed discrepancy between all three indicators at all, they were all equally inaccurate!
Similar to the A330 stall warning logic being inhibited below 60kts, as it isn't possible to be airborne with <60kts IAS is it? AF447 proved that was faulty logic.
Recently we had a partial loss of airspeed event at ~120kts on the FO side (PF) from a very large insect impact totally blocking the pitot tube. The crew flew the OPT attitude and TO thrust until they could get the performance data and then flew loss of airspeed attitude & thrust settings for a happy ending. Perhaps the crew in this event did a similar thing?
Which leads to the future of fully automated aircraft, how would an fully automated aircraft deal with these sorts of scenario's?
I'm guessing it wouldn't have you to get airborne to start with.