In ALT LAW 2, there is no Bank limit, and it is clear that PF was focused (overly so?) on his rolling. Perhaps to the extent that he neglected PITCH. If he wanted climb (and his stick says so) he may have been eager to address the rolling. Isn't Pitch modulated by the computer? If so, that is my point, not the 2.5 g barrier, but the "comfort" g exhibited in the climb which allowed the a/c to lumber up to 38k low energy, to STALL in mush?
Had the a/c STALLED earlier, before it lost its energy, mightn't there have been a NOSE DROP, and an inescapable cue to get the NOSE DOWN?
I am not saying the PF was tuned to his a/c, but if the a/c wasn't trying to supply comfort instead of reality, could this have turned out differently?
AZR. The language re POWER and then possibility of unrecoverable flight demonstrates that the authors do not know what will happen. No harm in that, but it is crystal clear that they are comfortable in this lack of knowledge. The assumption is that all pilots will acquiesce to the instruction. Some pilots like to know WHY? Given the State of the ART it's also clear that to tell these pilots what will happen serves no purpose. There is a message in that.
Last edited by Lyman; 3rd Oct 2011 at 13:32.