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Old 19th Dec 2021, 00:45
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ahramin
 
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No, it's not going to fall out of the sky under those conditions. On the other hand, it's poor flying.

The reason for the amber bar is to keep you well away from falling out of the sky. Many regulators and small aircraft associations are beating their heads against a wall trying to reduce the rate of stall accidents, while as airline pilots we almost never see this kind of accident. The reason is that instead of flying the aircraft in a manner that prevents a stall, we fly in aircraft in a manner that prevents getting anywhere close to a stall. Hard to go further into the details since we don't know your aircraft type but for example on the Airbus 320 getting just 2 knots into the VLS during manual flight will remove the FD bars and if the autothrust is on engage speed mode to power out of the VLS. Not going to help you descend.\

Bottom line: If you make a mistake and end up in the amber bar, the plane is fine but it's still a mistake.
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