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Old 16th Jul 2019, 03:59
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Gnadenburg
 
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I'm just providing an alternative means of taking control of an aircraft from a startled/ disorientated crew member. You can not land without a landing clearance ! A startled crew member's IQ is back around primate level. So cornered, they'll do what they know. That's why crews land unstable when visual. They see the RWY and do what they know. When they disarm the spoilers, the reality sets in!

So, when a startled Captain loses his landing clearance he'll do what he knows and Go Around. Better than wrestling the controls in some circumstances. I've seen this scenario and it works. Problem is now the high energy GA and mode confusion/ spatial disorientation/ somatogravic and PFD speed tape confusion on Airbus aircraft. There's four Airbus GA crashes I'm referencing with the later.
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