Interesting report .
Let me speculate :
The pilots may have been trying to access the attitude and synthetic flight on the I pad foreflight or not .
both pilots distracted on I pads ? , nobody flying the aircraft .
Did not read any pilot take control after the auto pilot disconnected . Or any verbiage regarding the aircraft . You have control , I have control very important calls . More important than three green .
It is very important in a multi crew to know who or what is actually in control . When the auto pilot is on . It is flying . When I turn off the auto pilot I always say " I have control " annoys some folks who do not like non SOP language but I always do it . Good banter Squiiffy.
Needle Ball and Airspeed
The worst kind of attitude failure to have is where the attitude indicator appears normal ,but the actual aircraft attitude is not . Not fun a real mind melt as you are tormented as what to do .
The easy attitude failures are when the attitude indicator goes wild spinning like a washing machine . Distracting ,but after fighting the confusion you can fly partial panel easy enough if you cover the broken instrument .
Needle Ball And Airspeed .
The tough failures are the insidious quiet ones , sometimes just a flicker on the guage before it's happens , sometimes a big ball of flame shoots up past your arm and you know instinctively you are in a fight for your life.
One flag may not just be that one instrument , a whole system might be about to go , that Loose wire from that system might be about to give you a real challenge way worser than any training session.
Needle Ball and Airspeed .
I have had the pleasure of flying a 200 at night with an electrical fire , smoke filled , and the worst distraction was the FO crying and screaming about we are going to die . Flying the aircraft was the easy part , dealing with the emergency was easy , being next to a panicked human was the hard part .
I actually thought I might have to knock him out to survive .
Fortunately he calmed down when the smoke cleared.
Needle Ball and airspeed.
I will read it again .
You must learn from the mistakes of others as you will never live long enough to make them all yourself .
Needle Ball and Airspeed .
In you next moment of coitus , if your partner screams Needle Ball and Airspeed you will know they are proficient in partial panel flying
