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Old 22nd Aug 2011, 18:38
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Hi AlphaZulu Romeo,
My impression is that ALTER is a publication by a somewhat marginal union of the type that are widespread in France, (perhaps because management is so often pigheaded).
I interpreted their comment as referring to the procedure to follow in case of a stall warning ( rather than the UAS procedures, which the crew clearly did not follow, perhaps because they got sidetracked by the stall), which afaik was TOGA thrust and small pull up. While I believe the procedure has now been changed, it did seems really blatantly inappropriate just on reading it, the kind of procedure that may mostly work and kill you the rest of the time.
I'm still trying to verify the claim of an actual high altitude stall flight test of an A330.
To do this w/o a recovery chute, using a 100++ million dollar airplane just boggles my mind. On the other hand, it sounds very French, they will try insane things and often pull them off.
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