BarbiesBoyfriend
Disagree. After a/p drops, his training was to fly through the shaker. The elevator was trimmed nose up, and he settled in with a column that relaxed at the elevator's position, to him, that was 'neutral' and backpressure made sense as he advanced the throttles to get off the shaker with a/s. At the pusher, he gets his second surprise, but keeps the backpressure, 'against the pusher', not the 'heave' or massive pull on the column. Eventually seventy pounds of 'resistance' against the column's forward push. At the last moment, with full back on the column but a 30 degree nose down, he might still be thinking, 'climb,baby'. Ken ?
1. Renslow was trained at Colgan to fly through the Shaker with power.
2. Flying through Shaker while maintaining Altitude can involve back pressure.
3. I think he may have been using the column's 'feel' to give him an horizon. Thinking pitch at a/p disconnect was 'neutral' (level)
4. I think GA was not his intention, but maybe his F/O's assumption, lifting flaps, waiting for his 'Gear Up'.
Last edited by Will Fraser; 3rd Aug 2009 at 00:13.