Hi DJ77,
Originally Posted by DJ77
Hmm, the flight controls were in normal mode and no sidestick controller input was made until 28 sec. after AP diconnection when they were already a thousand feet above their assigned level.
I thought that in normal law, compensation for thrust variation was provided.
Well, in fact, even in Normal Law, it is not really able to compensate for thrust change as it is described in the A330 FCOM (3.04.27):
Originally Posted by DJ77
Anyway, except for human factor aspects, this incident appears unrelated to AF447, this one being in ALT law.
Certainly, beside human factor aspects. But maybe it is an issue that those human factors appears to be seriously challenged when several crisis are declared at the same time (TCAS event/turbulence/overspeed for this A340 crew).