Airbus technology defects

[CONF iture]

Originally Posted by Speevy

did you know that the captain was trying to show how smart was the a/c demostrating Alpha Floor but forgot this:
ALPHA-FLOOR PROTECTION

Who could you honestly believe, an airline pilot would simply rely on Automatic Protection to kick in, at 100 feet RA, and with nothing less than a full pax load … ?

For sure these guys were very low, and well below the planed 100 ft RA, but that was not their intention, and they explain how they’ve been mislead, but there’s no way they could be possibly waiting for ALPHA FLOOR to assure the show!?

Early in that very short flight, due to an A/THR malfunction, they were already in Manual THR
15 sec before trees, THR LEVERS were advanced
9 sec before trees, THR LEVERS were at TOGA position
3 sec before trees TOGA FMA was called
But only 1 sec before trees, thrust was produced …

And there are 2 main reasons for that thrust production delay:
1- A/THR malfunction did generate late signals to ENG from any THR LEVER adjustment
2- ENG1 did stall… (Could it be the reason forest was cut in such a rush… ?)

Originally Posted by Speevy

If you comand Toga the A320 will go around!!!

Today I hope so… , but was it really the case for 100% situations in these Very - Early - Days… ?