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Can't help really. I had my head down doing the normal sort of IF trick trying to set up an ADD IAS Ht combination during the top end of a slam accel when it departed. I had no idea what the manoeuvre was, plenty of g coming and going in both directions plus rolling and sideways. My only concern (I was at over 35K) was to get the donk shut down which I did. Then I made myself double check the JPT was going all the way down and that I really had the HP off not at idle. With that done I started to think about the recovery. Plenty of tumbling still so I looked in again, and centred all the controls visually, looked up still tumbling, so I double checked I had everything central and looked up again. Just as I was thinking I don’t know what to do next it all stopped. I asked the test director what he thought had happened he was clearly shocked and said he could not tell as everything had gone essentially full scale. So I glid down, relit and then climbed back up for some more of the engine points on the card.
Throughout I cannot say I noticed any visual aberrations at all. I just remembered what the docs had said about the unreliability of ones eyes in high rate circumstances and decided not to try and guess what happened but wait for the onboard traces which had plenty of aero data unlike the TM which was mainly engine stuff. I certainly felt on my back foot when the mother departed as I was flying head down. Otherwise one might have had a bit more sense of did it start to the left or right for example.
See you Friday?
John F