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Old 1st Aug 2011, 22:41
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Graybeard
 
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Airspeed Input to Stall Warning

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Originally Posted by Graybeard
I cannot understand the logic of inhibiting Stall Warning based on low airspeed, unless it's meant as a redundancy to squat switch (WOW) discrete. It would be better to make the WOW more reliable, than add complication to SW logic, but that was an engineer's decision not vetoed by the AB pilots nor certification authorities.

DW replied: I suspect it was not a deliberately designed-in behaviour so much as a point so far outside the envelope that it was not considered. >60kts, in a heavy, at cruise altitude?
AB added to the complication of SW warning logic by adding the airspeed input. Couldn't they have kept it simple?
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