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Old 3rd Aug 2011, 18:17
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Lonewolf_50
 
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Dozy, your comment on AoA fouling VSI implies to me that you think AoA had an impact on what was being read/sensed in the static ports. (But if that isn't what you were thinking, sorry about that). We have had considerable discussion on high AoA causing some problems with pitot tubes and the pressure they are sensing.

I'd need to look at the trace on a screen that doesn't have issues with images. Not all of the ones posted here come through on this machine/system.

carlos:
Don't think there was a spin. I wandered off the reservation on that score some months ago, before the data had been analyzed and some of it released.

The BEA reconstruction of the descent indicates a single "turn" (over three or four minutes) that changed heading of AF447 about 270 degrees to the right.

That doesn't look like a spin, but more of a stall with some waffling and rolling going on, mostly to the right.
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