Originally Posted by Lemurian
....and they went down to crash on a series of consecutive stalls... It wouldn't have happened on an FBW airplane.
Again.... !
Fundamental confusion between FBW - fly-by-wire - as a concept, and what has been added since.
FBW
as such has
nothing to do with stall protection, etc.
In the olden days, we had fly-by-wire (see my earlier post), which just replaced less reliable and heavier wires.
In those days we had stick shakers, stick pushers and suchlike, as stall protection. Which you could ignore at your own discretion.... if you knew what you were doing.
Then came Alpha-Floor and all that, and if you didn't understand that, and didn't understand either that an engine needed time to spool up, and that you didn't do an "air show" below limits with a full load of passengers at an airfield you'd never been to before, yes.... you'd end up with something like Habsheim.
CJ