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Old 28th May 2011, 05:04
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Garrison
 
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stall recovery

I'm a light airplane guy and don't know much about this, so forgive me if this is nonsense, but it strikes me that the A330 displayed remarkably good post-stall behavior -- no departure, no spin. It seems to have plowed along in a steep glide at 250 ktas or so (100 knots vertical speed, 20-25 degree flight path) and continued to respond to roll commands. But the advice to fly attitude confuses me. If you put the airplane symbol on the horizon, the airplane itself would still be stalled; it would be necessary to point it 20 degrees or so below the horizon to unstall it. It appears as if the sheer complexity of the systems masked the simplicity of what was really going on.
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