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Old 5th Jul 2011, 09:45
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Pitch / Thrust in UAS.

Finally found it, it is in BEA report #1 page 122
It is in french so I skipped it in previous reading:

"Procedures anormales"
Urgence / secours

CONFIGURATION LISSE

Au dessus de 190T; FL 250 a FL 370
Vitesse 260Kts: Assiete (Pitch) 3.5 / POUSSEE (Thrust?) N1 90%

In comparision to my Hi power ground run tables
90% N1 ~ 80% thrust (temp effects taken in account)

Another 20% is a considerable amount of thrust (and pitch-up) they put in when moving T/L to TOGA. (=100% thrust).

IMO was the first action of capt. to retard to idle, and demanding a ND command. He did realized what was going on.
Unfortunately he couldn't see the position of THS (if F/CTL SD page not selected) and if not already too late to recover.
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