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Old 25th Jan 2024, 08:37
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I haven't studied the data streams but I would just caution that the FBW has accelerometer and attitude feedbacks to inform the FBW how the aircraft is responding to inputs in terms of attitude.

So sometimes there might appear to be a counterintuitive response of the flight control surfaces to a side-stick input, but one that actually makes sense when ALL factors are taken into account. For example the underslung engines spooling up to TOGA will cause a strong pitch up, which Airbus FBW will compensate for with elevator movement, invisible to the pilots.

I suspect that what might have happened here is that PF was committed to landing - hence reverse was momentarily selected, but then PM saw that the exiting aircraft had stopped or slowed with its tail fin still obstructing; so ordered a baulked landing or took control.

We weren't there in the cockpit but it appears on the face of it that they took this landing much too close and should have gone around earlier.
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