AF 447 Thread No. 8

[Flyinheavy]

@PJ2

[QUOTE]The memory drill's first question is, "is the safety of the flight at risk?"
That is a crew decision which directs their response one way or another.[QUOTE]

I think, they never applied this procedure anyway. They lost A/P at 2:10:05 and PF says at 2:10:14 "we haven't got a good display" to complete the phrase at 2:10:18 "of speed", while PM says at 2:10:17 "We've lost the speed etc.."
without any mentioning of UAS procedure.
If the transcript is real it shows that there was a lot of confusion and in fact no action only reaction of the PF to whatever situation he thought they were in.

As to the "There I've taken it down a bit" comment of PM at 2:09:54 it obviously refers to >Copilot's ND scale changes from 80NM to 40NM< at 2:09:53, so clearly no reference to pitch or speed as some were posting here.