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Old 6th Aug 2018, 16:55
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AFAIK this technique was rescinded after or at least around the Air France accident
A SAFO was issued after Colgan air stall on Approach which got aggravated after thrust was applied and crashed. In the airbus video on stall it is stated that the old recovery method was based on Approach to stall condition where stall warning gets activated. It further states that even for a test pilot it is difficult to differntiate between full stall and incipient stall. Therefore there must be standard procedure to treat it as AOA phenomenon. The procedure is in two parts. First is unstalling the wing and second is recovery of flight path. This procedure makes people uncomfortable in case of low level stall with ground contact possibility. It has been discussed even with airbus. The point is there are no two procedures. As for low level, aircraft should not be stalled close to the ground and if stalled fully some loss of altitude is inevitable and it will not recover as in Colgan case with a bash of thrust. If it's case of stall warning activation where aircraft is not stalled but close to stall it may recover with thrust. So first AoA must be reduced but the second part the recovery of Flight path can be started sooner to reduce loss of of altitude.

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