@Lonewolf_50:
I'm not trying to reply for Dozy, but I wanted to add a comment:
Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
Dozy, is it your position that only the PNF was operating under the awareness that the aircraft was in Alternate Law? I do not think that what has been released from the CVR supports that position.
IMHO the
lack of an acknowledgement by the PF (according to the CVR transcript) to the PNF calling Alternate Law does leave open the
possibility that the PF had not really "heard" that statement.
Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
If his mindset was overspeed, applying TOGA does not seem to fit the problem he was trying to solve.
Agreed, but later he deployed the speedbrakes, which therefore
does fit with an overspeed mentality. My view is that the PF's mental picture may have changed (perhaps multiple times) during the whole event sequence, which would therefore explain the
seemingly contradictory actions - they were not contradictory
at the time he did each one, as his mental picture of the situation had changed in the meantime.
In other words, if we consider that he may just have been trying several different actions because he didn't have any confidence of his diagnosis, then it is perhaps easier to understand why, during the whole event sequence, he did
seemingly contradictory things like TOGA and later speedbrakes.
That's
my current "model" to try to explain the PF's varied actions. Does this make sense as a possibility?