Are there programmed alerts and mx transmissions that would in any way suggest that the crew was attempting 'recovery' eg overloading, rapid and multiple control limit excursions? Additional over limit/rate excursions beyond a/p limits? Anything? Or would all those be in the CVR/FDR?? I simply get the notion that for some time, the pilots were out of the loop in every way. I haven't seen this addressed, but with the last post of grizzled, It just seems things for four minutes just got worse and worse.
I've asked before, but can a 330 Captain characterize for us what the 'transition'/ reversion process a/p to pilot involves? Seems that so much confidence is placed in the a/c, the possibility of letting slip the in and out of transfer training may be a bit out of balance. Are there displays that cue the pilot 'what's left'? Not just 'what's gone'?