A previous quote ...
Personally I believe that no pilot would maintain a pitch attitude of 16 deg at height intentionally it would look too weird
In darkness at altitude over an ocean, possibly in cloud, no visual reference to "look" weird.
It also looks weird on your artificial horizon if your intent is to be flying level.
Really, it does.
The dark side (bottom circle) or the AH isn't visible, all you see is the light semi circle ...
PEI 3721, post 2367:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post6610842
Nice post, food for thought. (And no mayonnaise, on that, thank you!
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carlos: disagree
This is what should be:
Sound of the stall warning should mean STALL
Not sound of stall warning should mean NOT STALL
Stall warning is a very handy tool in preventing a stall. It lets you act while you still have control of all of your flight surfaces. You get to make a correction while you are still flying, rather than once you have started not flying, but more or less falling ...
Loose Rivets, in re spurious warnings.
I bet your instrument scan was working, since you were flying ...
Denise Moore:
Did the pilots say nothing during the last three minutes? Because I have not seen anything mentioned.
Head over to tech log, a poster (gpc62) did a best effort English translation of what the BEA have released from CVR. It is as he says "unofficial CVR transcript translation - plus VS" (Stall warning)
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/45687...ml#post6610403
It is some chilling reading.