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Old 30th May 2011, 03:06
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Nonetheless, despite having a THS trim at +13 deg and being already in a full stall situation, it seems that those imputs are effective by reducing the AoA... hence, elevators were still effectives, don't you think?
Absolutely yes, but they ran out of authority against that great big THS. If the THS had been set to a lower value at that point, it appears the aircraft would have continued rotating until its nose pointed down the velocity vector. We don't yet know how long the nose down input was held, do we? Only that it brought on the return of the stall warning.
The stall warning may have stopped the crew's nose down input, or maybe it didn't. Probably it was a matter of authority. BEA hasn't told us yet.
The crew was evidently trying everything they could think of, they just didn't think of the manual pitch trim because at some level they probably considered it irrelevant. That is what training needs to fix.
So how easy would it be to fly a right wing heavy A330 in Alt 2 law in your estimation? Could you keep from applying aft stick if flying with your right hand?
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