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Old 29th May 2011, 09:33
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edmundronald
 
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Let me bang on like a broken record about the very similar Air Caraibes A330-200 incidents (2 of them, handled successfully, the same way, in September of 2006):

http://www.eurocockpit.com/docs/ACA.pdf

In the case detailed, the "incident" lasted about 2 minutes, from initial unreliable airspeed disconnect to restoration of working FDs and APs.

During that time (and, to be fair, the way in which the a/c had been set up in the preceding few minutes to deal with icing and turbulence) the PF had time to:
a) safely and successfully fly the plane using "manually" set thrust and pitch;

They did good. So maybe someone should learn something from the training they had. Although this forum is full of professional pilots saying that the AF crew were professional, people out there clearly expect a different standard.
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