Originally Posted by
A Squared
I would have to assume that when Boeing publishes a technical description of a control system in a bulletin to one of their manuals whcih says "...2.5 degrees ..... 0.27 degrees per second ...." That the word "degrees" means precisely that: Degrees. And that if they had really meant "Units of Aircraft Nose Up" (or whatever the term is in the FCOM) they would have said exactly that.
Yep.
That's how I feel as well, but may be wrong.