Originally Posted by
Pilotbrandon7606
thanks for your reply, I was unsure as after seeing a video of a crew run this failure in the simulator, it looks like it didn’t actually go into direct law until ap off despite gear down.
https://youtu.be/JC_Nvh0kRyc?si=VQQjehsa3iAjLIwV
I suppose probably a simualtor inaccuracy?
Interesting, I'd not seen the video. Can only go off what the manuals say having not experienced it for real. The prompt for direct law does appear to be gear down, however there is some contradictory information in the FCTM. Barring real life experience of the failure, it is impossible to actually confirm it.
Without RA you would not get any of the landing modes (LAND, FLARE), or even be able to select APPR mode, meaning an FPA descent. So you would have to disconnect at some point anyway. But it seems odd to engineer it that way round.
Originally Posted by
compressor stall
The flippancy of the reply was probably uncalled for, but some of the sentiment is valid. By all means, a thirst for knowledge is great and should be welcomed, but memorising all the nuances of failures in detail - especially in a sim - is not always a great idea and can lead you down the wrong path. Your real life failure will never be the same as what you get in the sim.
There's a reason today that much training is around pilot competencies, with relatively few rote learned events. If you get the competencies right, you can better deal with whatever weird wacky and wonderful things the aircraft throws at you at any time of day and night.
Completely agree. Effective competencies ensure good handling of failures, not complete knowledge of all of them. However, this is a forum for technical questions and I think the rudeness was completely unwarranted for a valid question which now also has me curious!