Originally Posted by
HeathrowAirport
The mind boggles. I've FDJ'd a B788/B789 when I was CCW and it's without doubt the best setup I've ever seen.
Qatars policy is to use the HUD right? I wonder if VMC at night over water, using the HUD and got into spatial disorientation as it states the flight director was off?
The article is not well written but I’m not sure the flight directors were off.
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the first officer attempted to turn towards that waypoint flying manually and without flight director indications (the captain was slow to put the Direct into the FMS) but lost situational awareness sending the”
I think it likely that the flight directors were on and as the captain was slow inputting the “direct to”, in the absence of a roll command the f/o began a turn. The whole thing is still hard to fathom. I mean, the fly-by-wire system automatically compensates for the higher wing-loading generated in a turn - there is no need to apply control column back pressure until 30° of bank is exceeded.