Originally Posted by
jcjeant
What about the movements of elevator and movements of stick ..
Do you see the elevator mimic the stick commands in the 20 - 30 first seconds after AP tell goodbye ?
Yes - quite clearly, although the deflection is clearly less in the earlier part of the graph - the question is, what was their altitude and airspeed in the two phases you highlight - it looks like the system was deflecting the elevators relevant to cruise speed in the first part, and lower airspeed in the second.
@pax2908 below - there'll always be debate over that one. The only difference is that the THS trim would have had to be wound on manually rather than happening automatically, which a lot of people were using as an argument in favour of Direct Law until the report came out, reasoning that the PF would not have wanted that much nose-up deflection. However the CVR now indicates that is precisely what the PF was trying to achieve - the big question now is why.