Hi folks,
thanks for the replies! Well, when I signed up here, that's when I last flew the Ka8. But she did leave an impression!
Jumping a few lightyears ahead with regard to technology, if I understand you correctly, the AP will not disengage (let's leave the FBW Airbus aside) if you leave the design performance parameters - instead it will happily stall the aircraft and trim the aircraft nose up if you are foolish enough to pull back the thrust levers in FLCH (probably fighting to maintain level flight at the onset of the stall). Interestingly, it is my understanding that the classic 737 had more or less an undocumented feature where in V/S mode you could not stall the aircraft. Strangely, this feature did not make it to the B757/767/744 later on (maybe the upgraded FCC's had this option?) so climbing in V/S mode was discouraged.
Will the alpha floor protection on the FBW airbus disengage the AP?