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Old 24th May 2012, 20:46
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Bonjour roulishollandais.

Three seconds to display the change in Law to the pilots, yet the man whose job it is to Monitor, takes an additional fourteen seconds. He strikes me as a little bit anal, and actually pretty good so far at his charge. Hmm. He is eager to nudge the PF in re: some other things, so perhaps he thought it unimportant until "later". For the moment, then, can we imagine how long fourteen seconds is under the circumstances? Is it at least possible then, that PF believes NORMAL is the LAW, at first? His displays are not recorded, and certainly the ECAM has received the LAW degrade data? How can we be sure? Certainly we know that the first they know for sure, is at PM's remark.

All the while the a/c is turning the pebbles over re: speeds, and the direction the logic is pointing, the pilots must be aware? What is the prompt that the a/c is mulling over some extremely critical decisions? Is there one? Something like, "HORN, WAKE UP flyboy, get your ess together, possible controls LAW rethink in process"? The timeline and chronology is for some reason sparse......?

Old airline bromide. Flying: "99 percent boredom, one percent panic...."
eh?
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