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Old 7th Jul 2005, 16:11
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AirRabbit
 
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Hey B738 –

Thanks for the information. A question back to you … Do I understand correctly, that if you push the A/P disconnect to silence “the cavalry” charge, as someone else posted here (BTW, I like that description), the stick pusher will not activate as long as you keep the disconnect button depressed? And does that mean that when the button is released, the stick pusher will fire if the pitch attitude or AOA has not changed?

I would suspect that nothing will happen to the longitudinal trim (which the A/P would have probably trimmed right up to the point of A/P disconnect) and I would suspect that if either the crew or the stick pusher got the nose down (not sure what triggers stick pusher deactivation) any airspeed increase above where the trim was last effective would result in some sort of nose-up pitch. Is that accurate?
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