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Old 9th Apr 2019, 01:59
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Originally Posted by Chu Chu
Unless I'm missing something, if that happened in IMC, the crew would be faced with a stick shaker (on one side), a UAS warning, and a display showing the horizon moving above the flight path. Would they recognize that they had to ignore the first two indications and act immediately on the third? If they refrained from significant control (never mind trim!) inputs until they'd worked through the obvious indication problems, they'd have to deal with a flight path upset on top of everything else.
The proper response would be to turn off the magic, set the attitude and power to a known quantity, fly away from the ground, and then figure out what instruments were lying to you. You know, the basic pilot stuff that is no longer emphasized.
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