WOK and CPB,
Understand your points, but wonder if you would actually get a level off, or rather a
reduction in the rate of descent... the computation would take into account your trajectory, so it wouldn't necessarily be anything as drastic as an 8000 fpm ROD change would it?
Having said that, will an intermediate reduction, or even level off for the 10 seconds an RA was commanded really affect the emergency descent significantly enough to consider switching RA off while the rest of the rapid decompression bedlam is going on?
Just trying to promote a bit of discussion here - it's an interesting topic!
Let us know what the techies said!
Lancer