Originally Posted by bearfoil
Asked to give an approximation of Vs, his post was, with all due respect, "Duh". An experienced Airbus 330 jock, PJ2 doesn't do the a/c's reputation any good, notwithstanding his patience and consummate skill.
Well, I tried,
bear, where others didn't. There is a great deal in knowing and flying the airplane which cannot be conveyed easily within this kind of discourse. If you didn't pick up the sense for example that the Captain/crew would know that the airplane was in serious diffculty long before indications of an actual stall then perhaps it is my writing that has failed you and, as you claim, "the readership"; if I have contributed to a lesser understanding of the A330 when precisely the opposite was my goal, I sincerely regret that.
You are correct in the exercise of patience because that and a certain forbearance on the part of the readership because print is difficult to convey some notions in, is what it takes to understand the airplane. One cannot convey a sense of the airplane in a few paragraphs so it becomes all to easy to dismiss the airplane out of hand without ever setting foot in it.
To those who fly it, including, clearly, the thirteen crews who successfully dealt with a momentary loss of airspeed data, the airplane is not nearly as antagonistic or obscure as defined in your response.
Anyway, I guess with explanations garnering a "duh" I'm done here and someone else who is willing to spend the time and who has a better comprehension of both engineering aerodynamics and flies the airplane can sit in. Good day.