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Old 12th Jan 2012, 14:22
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Originally Posted by babotika
Protections don't hopefully kick in on the bus, they do if you're in normal law and they don't otherwise
Except for QF72

That said, in alternate law (what AF447 had) the aircraft will start shouting STALL when you get to vs1g, and the auto trim ceases to function which essentially gives you a speed stable aircraft again
Except for AF447

Originally Posted by Chunky Monkey
You never need to manually take control of pitch trim, as the stick is basically an attitude selector - so forget about trim (excepting when in degraded modes without it, when it will tell you to trim, and this is then easy)
Except for AF447 it did not.

Originally Posted by babotika
But I guess it's more fun to bash the "scarebus" than to try and understand it's logic
No bashing, no scarebus either, just discussing facts.
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