Originally Posted by
212man
What cons do the airbus ones have?
having relooked at the report I see there is a speed trend arrow. I also see a lot of altimeter vs range cross-checking, so clearly the PFD was being looked at. Hard to imagine how the rapidly growing yellow arrow would not catch your eye.
interesting to see also that they were briefing to break the minimums if they did a second approach!
Without trawling through the report again - so from memory: the rate of deceleration was initially fairly modest. IIRC PM called “airspeed” when it was still around 40kts, this more or less coincided with the nose pitching up and rate of deceleration increasing markedly, so possibly it was the arrow that attracted his attention. At 40kts a recovery was still quite possible but for whatever reason the captain only applied the collective very slowly - something like 8 seconds to go from not much collective to a too-late armful. Some kind of internal denial that the situation was critical, perhaps?