AF447 Thread No. 3

[infrequentflyer789]

Originally Posted by TLB

Thanks. But this is exactly the point I am trying to raise. If the PF initially thought his main problem was an unreliable airspeed situation, then his initial response (raised the nose a little and left the CLB default throttle setting - your words) was exactly the right thing to do, according to the C/L.

The way I read the BEA info, the nose was raised more than "a little" and pitch much more than 5 degrees.

But on the C/L, buried in a postscript to a post a few pages back by Hyperveloce is this little bombshell:

Originally Posted by Hyperveloce

PS) 5 days after the AF 447 crash, AF's safety direction released a note to all the navigating crews urging them not to apply this emergency maneuver in cruise phase: http://www.eurocockpit.com/docs/INFO_DIV_AIRBUS.pdf

Now, is that a "reminder to follow the procedures", or an urgent message that the previously advised procedures were wrong ???

If it is the latter, then AF found probable cause in training / SOPs only 5 days after the crash - who did they tell ?