Originally Posted by
172_driver
From a Boeing driver who hasn't got a clue about Airbus flight controls;
Is ELAC PITCH FAULT a dispatchable defect? To get a sense of the seriousness of such a message. To me it doesn't sound normal to keep resetting a computer that's not playing. Not only one, but two, computers erring quite early in on the training session. And they kept departing.
It is NO DISPATCH on ELAC2 and conditional on ELAC1 but here comes in play the ambiguity whether you apply MEL inside touch and goes, now it was clarified by Airbus because of this accident.