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Old 8th May 2012, 19:35
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DozyWannabe
 
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Careful TD, your source is not exactly known for impartiality.

Originally Posted by Lyman
Did you try without failing the ADR's? See, if PITCH (elevator) can induce a STALLWARN, transient, then the a/p has no business remaining active, wouldn't you program it that way? My point is that the a/p can quit without UAS.
It took a lot of pitch input to induce that stall warning - way in excess of what the autopilot would order in terms of magnitude and speed.

Autopilots *can* quit as a result of extreme maneouvres, but that doesn't seem to be the case here - it was designed to cope with worse than what it was facing.
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