Originally Posted by PJ2
The Flight Director system was similarly change so that if either or both FD's were switched off, the A/T system reverted to SPEED, to bring the power up. Previous to this accident, this was not the case.
Actually,
both FD's need to be switched off.
Switching off only one of them won't allow the system to revert to SPEED mode ... That's one of the catches !
And for
Sonic Bam, still nothing on the horizon ...