Originally Posted by DozyW
BOAC, did you take a grumpy pill this morning?
- no bigger a pill than usual
A couple of honest questions. Firstly, did you read what I wrote yesterday re: the systems design? It's there to assist the pilot to do his or her job, not to "protect" the aircraft from bad piloting as such.
There I disagree - it IS there to protect from 'bad piloting as such' and it does it very well in normal circumstances - things like excessive pitch, too high an AoA, too much 'g' etc etc.
Secondly, as I asked on the other thread, if Airbus thought that pilots didn't "need to know", then why would they publish an article saying that they think manual flying skills at airlines have been allowed to deteriorate too far?
- you need to remember that normal 'manual flying' in an Airbus is still 'protected' by the system. Thus they do NOT need to know the limits of safe flying, even manually, as the aircraft controls those.
The Alternate modes are there because the design brief called for them. I could try to dig up more info on that, but does it really matter?
- no. That was EXACTLY my point!