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Old 8th Jul 2011, 03:12
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EMIT
 
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CRAP or CREPE??

Well DC-ATE, as you can read in the BEA preliminary report, the airplane reacted in a totally normal way, as soon as a proper stick input was given: when the stick was pushed forward, the pitch attitude lowered and the AOA decreased.
Unfortunately the proper stick input was not maintained long enough to effect complete recovery from the stalled situation.
Nothing really crappy about aircraft response there, Fly By Wire or not.
"Even" an Airbus is a totally normal airplane if you treat it as such.

Do not get confused by Airbus being FBW, it is not statically unstable as an F-16 is. I am not gonna explain that further, that has been done very well by old Gums a lot of postings ago already.
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