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Old 27th Mar 2009, 21:44
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Hopefully this accident will show how important it is to monitor attitude in stall recovery. It doesn't matter much what caused the upset but maintaining the right attitude is what will recover the aircraft safely. Wing stall or tailplane stall requires holding the attitude to recover. Full up trim with a wing stall requires agressive forward yoke to not let the plane pitch up with aggresive power increases. If it is a tailplane stall holding attitude will require back pressure and reducing flaps. The A320 off France had severe pitch changes causing the crash of the Air New Zealand airplane probably because of a lot of nose up trim followed by max power. Neither of these accident may have occured if hand flown. The autopilot is wonderful but it can leave the pilot not entirely in the loop.
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