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Old 17th Dec 2008, 17:58
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Jig Peter
 
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Get it Straight !!!

Green Knight raises the "FBW flies you into trees" story. Off thread, I know, but the pilot concerned was a) doing "display flying" for which he had no experience, b) well below his agreed minimum hieght, c) hadn't properly reconnoitered the field he was to display at - nor had he properly rehearsed the routine,and d) didn't realise that a CFM56 takes a longish time to spool up from idle.
It was said later that in fact the A320's FBW actually prevented this totally avoidable accident from being worse than it was ...
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