Quote: bratchewurst
Except that the software’s response to the issue could be better. Why not have the A/P go into attitude hold in this case, instead of simply disconnect? A given attitude and power setting will result in sufficient airspeed stability to at least assess the problem without having to wrestle with the airplane at the same time.
isn´t that the real problem nowadays? Is the Crew in the cockpit for studying panels and manuals or are those Pilots there to act like pilots?
In my days the first item in any kind of emergency was
Maintain Aircraft Control
Reading Checklist items came after that.
The big difference probably being that we had to wrestle with the aircraft also without any kind of emergencies.
With this answer here i do not intend to blame the Crew of AF447 for acting wrong, there are no informations to that.