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Old 3rd Jul 2012, 16:08
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... but no Boeing pilot at FL350 would pull back to the stops if he lost his airspeed and autopilot...
But this guy was an Airbus pilot, and under Normal Law, isn't pulling the side stick to the stops quite permitted because Alpha Protect would limit any pitch change to prevent LOC? (Indeed, I thought such such flight protections were one of Airbus' avowed selling points.)

So what about the possibility that the PF simply did not process/comprehend that when the A/P went into Alternate Law, that Alpha Protect was no longer active -- and that he would need to use the side stick more like a Boeing yoke than an Airbus joystick? Thus, it wasn't that he was dumb, just that he had a brain freeze in not fully comprehending that his protections were gone (despite this warning being given on the ECAM).
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