Hi deSitter,
Originally Posted by deSitter
I don't know why the apologists for automation cannot simply admit that they are wrong, or at least to admit defeat and claim that they are right anyway, as a face-saving maneuver
A very long time ago, this case was closed for any people able to understand how autotrim works and that manual trim is available, at any time, if one doesn't like what autotrim is doing. One, which is able to understand it, obviously doesn't need to save his face either.
AF447 case is all about pilot's imputs which are not coherent with the situation, not about an automatism which stupidly followed orders given; it is like asking that the elevators should not follow nose up orders when stall warnings were sounding. In fact, it is a case calling for more automation as some would have liked that this aircraft could be able to determine all by itself that pilot's orders were stupid and should not be followed by any aircraft stupid control surfaces.