Saw a post from A33Z about this:
Before calling this a ridiculous design.....
What are your suggestions how it ought to be?
Maybe AIB (or any other airplane manufacturer) can learn from you?
Nuts cracked the "nut" with this:
Capture of alpha-prot means that the FCS maintains an AoA greater than required for
level flight ....
Why does the system, not the pilot, try to maintain an AoA that is not necessary?
If the "protection" limit is "x", no problem. But the system should strive to achieve the trimmed gee ( one gee for the 'bus", as the pilots can't trim for a gee as in the other FBW system that has over 4,000 jets flying in dozens of countries) ? Pilots input commands other than one gee, to the limits, but the jet should not insist upon flying at the alpha-prot value, which is higher than necessary for most flight conditions. In that "other" jet, if you relaxed stick pressure, then it tried to achieve the commanded gee, not the alpha.
The alpha-prot should be a "limit", and not a "command" from the system.
I continually bring up "that other jet", as there are thousands more than the Airbus flying and thousands more pilots flying it. The number of LOC incidents due to sensor failures and system failures is down in the noise level considering the thousands of flights each day for the last 30 years.
just more thots .....