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43Inches
It's actually very relevant to this thread, as non english speaking crew can be bamboozled by calling the same thing several names. It's very important when teaching ESL crews that the terminology is spot on. Airbus knows this as parts of the group come from non english speaking nations, hence why a lot of thought is in it's terminology. Boeing, well they just do things and put names that makes it sound different to the competition.
Agree. QZ8501 is another example, with the aircraft out of control heading towards the ocean, one told the other to ‘pull down’ on the sidestick, amongst numerous other non standard terms. Hardly helped the situation, in fact most certainly contributed to the end result.