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Old 17th Apr 2022, 11:56
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@ CVividasku; irrelevant. The "pilots" of AF447 caused the aircraft to crash - obviously not deliberately - RIP.

Hold full back-stick, or yoke in any aircraft, and it will stall. Keep holding full pitch-up during the stall and descent, and you will crash. The standard stall recovery is to immediately pitch down - this should be instinctive to experienced airline pilots.

Yes, the Airbus side-sticks are not easily visible to the other pilot, especially in dark conditions. I would add simple software to bring up the square ground control check display on both PFDs if a side-stick was held at or near a limit in flight for more than, say, a few seconds, so the other pilot would be alerted to what the first pilot was doing with their side-stick.
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