Originally Posted by JD-EE
Now, the computer actually has more information than the pilots saw, it appears. At the very least it has AoA. It also has GPS, raw and processed and the inertial system that it can use to work with. It HAS altitude. It never lost it. So it can monitor its pitch and thrust and fiddle both to maintain altitude. It might be a "lumpy" process. But it would keep the plane flying.
Which computer? The AP and A/THR disconnected, and handed 'control' to the FCPC, which reconfigured to Alternate law. The purpose of 'pitch and power' is to "keep the plane flying", not to maintain altitude or airspeed (in UAS
and in turbulence). The FCPC does just that - maintain pitch and power. Why can't it maintain bank angle?