PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Is it possible to stall an Airbus fly-by -wire aircraft in Normal Law ?
Old 28th Sep 2011, 07:33
  #20 (permalink)  
Artificial Horizon
 
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: The Land Downunder
Posts: 765
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
There is a small note in the FCOM 3 that states that in situations of full power being applied with an engine shutdown (still in normal law) that loss of control may be reached in low speed situations before control laws activate.

Also, was there not an A330 crash in France at one stage (1994) when high pitch on rotation was selected during a test flight with an engine shutdown. FCU altitude was set low and the high rate of vertical speed resulted in an almost immediate ALT* after lift off. The speed decayed and the aircraft low speed protections didn't activate due to being in 'capture' mode resulting in a stall from normal law.

1994 A330 test flight crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can stall any aircraft!!
Artificial Horizon is offline