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Old 25th April 2012 | 22:55
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DozyWannabe
 
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Well, the sim I was in certainly got the gist of it, even if the numbers might not have been that exact. Specifically the loss of effective aileron control once established in the stall, necessitating use of rudder (albeit *very* gingerly) to level the wings. We know that the crew didn't try using rudder until very late in the sequence, and that some very aggressive aileron roll inputs were made, which might have mad a bad situation worse.

We all know that when that far outside of the flight envelope, the data is based on extrapolation from the numbers gleaned in flight testing rather than real numbers - but that doesn't mean the sim cannot be a useful learning tool.

I don't doubt that the PF and the rest of the crew were doing everything they could think of to rescue the situation - the question is why did their training not encompass the *correct* things to do?
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