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Old 10th Jul 2005, 05:07
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Bolty McBolt
 
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The Aircraft you speak of is the A330/ 340
Its primary flight control computers will limit the manoeuvring loads to a max of 2 Gs or 1.5 which ever is correct.
Cannot be overridden...Max bank angle of 63 degree nose down of 15 and stall / alfa protection for nose up.
To get the aircraft into direct law that will override you need to turn alot of computers off. All but one primary and secondary flight control computers your inertial systms and some of your Air data (pitot / static)
Not any situation any pilot I have ever met would want to be in a Airbus
The 767/757 is a direct control aircraft. Cables to to actuators that move flight contols
With Boeing the pilot inputs to the controls he/she will acheive surface displacement equal to the input even if it will rip off the wing tail etc Pilots discretion

Airbus. Put a command into joystick ..aircraft thinks about it..and gives an output that will be the cheapest(fuel burn) displacement of control surface for the manoeuvre requested

Phil Hudson you were correct for the wrong aircraft
Hope this helps
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