Originally Posted by
DozyWannabe
No, he's wrong. When autoflight trips out, the trim and power settings remain at their last assigned setting.
That may be true DW, however we don't know what pitch & power (therefore energy) direction George was trending in prior to the disconnect. That, along with scores more information have been unfortunately left out of the BEA report.
By the way, the Braniff example you just cited was not true. A Boeing pilot was in the seat, but not at the controls and it was not a developmental test flight. The Braniff pilot managed to remove 3 engines before they had to crash land the aircraft. In the sense of flying a 707 with 1 engine, that surely would have been in the realm of a flight "test. "
cheers!