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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 15:48
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Originally Posted by FE Hoppy
How about this scenario:
PF makes his correction for roll and doesn't notice the rate of climb or is confused by the stall warning. When he notices the 7000fpm he corrects with nose down and levels at 375 all without adding thrust. He's now at 4°alpha but having not added thrust his speed is reducing which induces the second stall warning. Now he adds the thrust and pulls up. The aircraft doesn't have much more thrust to give and his alpha is increasing all the time while the speed is reducing. We know that the isis speed comes back at 2:11:06 (15 seconds later ) and shows 185 which matches the PFD.

Doesn't appear unreasonable and doesn't require any external energy input.
Ok, accepted and thanks. Next question if I may? At this point would it be acceptable to assume that the ground speed would be about 400kts?
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