Originally Posted by
Gretchenfrage
Dear Clandestino and others.
Let me give you full credit and my admiration for your superior knowledge of the AB features. At the same time accept my apologies for preferring certain manufacturers or philosophies. I believe this forum should still be able to bear some rants, not only professorial comments.
Having said that, and in that particular contribution having NOT mentioned any specific manufacturer, I still stand by my comment:
Any aircraft that does not lift it's nose when the pilots pulls, that does not deliver thrust when the pilot slams the throttles IS a screw up.
As long as some official reports are dubious on these things, such criticism will prevail.
GF
You seem awfully sure of yourself. I don't suppose you'd be willing to try to repeat the Habsheim flight in one of your preferred aircraft (such as a B737NG), now would you? If you
really repeated it, you would suffer the same (or an even worse) fate. Pulling back the stick and slamming the throttles forward in a very low energy flight regime in a turbofan powered airplane will almost certainly result in a stall, or a rapidly increasing sink rate from which you can't recover when you're at 50 ft. You're entitled to an opinion, but not to your own facts.