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Old 9th Jul 2011, 00:32
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At great risk to my tender self, I have offered that ICE had nothing whatever to do with UAS. That the A/P loss was due to its insufficiencies in controlling the a/c in very turbulent airflow due the weather. If the a/p was lost due to being voted out of the loop by its mama, and the Pilot(s) "chosen" to take over, NORMAL LAW would have obtained, at least until further asym flow could confuse the Pitot heads, eliciting UAS and ALTERNATE LAW. ROLL DIRECT (UNPROTECTED) and PITCH DIRECT (PROTECTED) would have been the regime the Pilots would have assumed afaik. From there, a tug of war ensued, and the pilots lost, though they won a battle or two.