CurtainTwitcher;"They probably had the AT disconnect annunciator flashing away until the end."
"When I see that AT disconnect flashing for more than a few seconds, I know the person I am sitting next to is overloaded and has lost SA. It's interesting experiment to see how long before they attend to it, it can be quite some time. Occasionally they won't even notice I've reached up and pushed the annunciator to cancel it."
...Except that it's hard not to hear the annoying clacker horn as they zoomed past 340 kts (VMO) 3 minutes after lift off, and past 458 kts two minutes after that. It's apparent that these guys were totally engrossed with pitch control ignoring also the increasing noise of rushing air from the slipstream, ignoring also in day VMC at low altitude the fast moving terrain below their feet.
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