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Old 3rd Jul 2012, 19:50
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In addition, it would be poor practice to train pilots to use an input as a measure of aircraft control, where the really important aspect is the output - what the aircraft is doing – what has the control input achieved.
Now watch it, this may backfire.
The crew of AF447 after the loss of control wanted to arrest the descent and climb back to their assigned flight level, therefore they pulled on the stick. The aircraft continued to descent, therefore they pulled more.........

From a pilots view it is most important to evaluate the output in relation to the input. As mentioned before, thats the control strategy of automatic systems as well. Take the input value or the output value away from the logic, and your automatics will go banana.

You need to take both into account, the input and the resulting output.
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