BEagle
Reading that Airbus Test Manual, written in the customarily weird fractured franglais, I do not understand what (p48)
Quote:
Disconnect this α floor function at once
is supposed to mean. "Disconnect"? How??
The α Floor function can be disengaged by disconnecting the auto-thrust system, and so is the associated TOGA-lock function.
The idea of that test would be to check that the αFloor function works as required, and after its disengagement, check the α Prot function at Vmin, requiring a descent at that speed.
Also, the instruction to record the 3 AoA values and to ensure that 'The AoA must not differ by more than 0.5º when compared to the (pitch-fpa) data' is ambiguous. Does this refer to the mean AoA value, or any single AoA value?
That comparison can only be done in stable conditions, i.e "green dot" or Vls, depending on the aircraft configuration. The test engineer will have on one of the MCDUs the AIDS page containing all three AoA values. That part hasn't been done in the"Full" configuration, as they were, according to the report in HDG/VS mode.