Originally Posted by
RR_NDB
(considered as of negligible probability in the a/c System design)
When it was designed yes, but at the time of the AF447 accident there were known issues with the Thales pitot probes - in fact there was a service bulletin in effect and operators communications from Airbus giving guidance on what to do should the fault arise.
As has been stated, it's not like the aircraft is a joy to fly in Normal Law and becomes squirrelly and unpredictable in any other regime - the whole point of the law degradation design is to keep control of the aircraft as transparent to the pilot as possible. The only major thing to bear in mind outside Normal Law operations is that the hard-limiting protections are no longer there, other than that it's largely business as usual.
Originally Posted by
OK465
With a simple, constrained dual ADR failure, the FPV is still available, but the FD is removed.
So are you saying that had they known about it, AoA information was available?