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Old 1st Apr 2011, 05:23
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rmcdonal
 
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Gissing dismissed the stick shaking events yesterday that were not low energy and put them down to the increased ref speed switch not being correctly selected. Look what happenned to the Colgan Air crew in this very situation!!
Let me just clarify this one
In the Colgan incident the aircraft was in icing conditions, and did in fact stall.
Where as the Ref Speed incidents at the Link where out of icing conditions causing the stick shakers to activate 20 knots earlier than they would have normally. These aircraft did not stall.

The other low speed events however...
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