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Old 23rd Jun 2011, 02:54
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Rockwell-Collins has announced, at Paris, "panic button" that would "rescue" the plane by immediately recovering it from a stall or bringing it to straight and level at a reasonable speed; it might even land the plane. This way lies UAVs as passenger planes.

What are we coming to as pilots? If this is tried, we might has well hire to proverbial "bus driver" as long as conditions are fine, he'll do fine and when this goes wrong, push "PANIC" and wait for the landing.

WRT Machinbird's comment--if you are going downhill with boatloads of ROD, no indications of airspeed, nose 16 degrees above the horizon, pushing the nose down 35 degrees is better than whatever else has been tried. As D.P Davies said, given the choice between stalling and the alternative, try the alternative.

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