Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
That wasn't exactly advantageous in AF447. Had it been a normal aircraft, the crew would have had to consciously trimmed back into the stall. The A330 did it automatically, to full nose up, which is just what they didn't want or need.
That may be
somewhat of a factor, but the opposite would not have been a slam dunk prevention. Cf. Asiana 214 which was a "normal aircraft" yet the pilot's consciousness did not extend to the elevator force provided to them by the system, and still drove it into a near stall. (
Without the ground there to cue a reaction first, there's every reason to think they would have continued pulling back all the way to the stall warning/shaker/limiter/whatever. edit: they did get the shaker)
Any stupid thing that an Airbus airplane is able to do automatically, a pilot is able to do manually. Well, at least this stupid thing. Otherwise there would have been no stall accidents prior to the 1980's.