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Old 5th Jul 2012, 09:47
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Peter H
 
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respecting stall warnings

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If there were suggestions floating around that they may have picked up through discussion with other crews that "the stall warning could be false" and it
"should" be ignored, that's a training, competency and cockpit discipline issue, not an ECAM/QRH issue I think. The message on every UAS drill I have
is to respect the stall warning. We'll see what the report says, anyway...


A procedural question from a non-pilot.

I assume that a stall warning requires a prompt response, while an event such as UAS requires a more considered response [and resort to a checklist].

If so, shouldn't the initial response to a stall warning be a memory item? With any caveats about ignoring stall warnings being part of that memory item.

This way there would be no place for confusion about when to ignore stall warnings. In particular, in-depth study of specific checklists in isolation would
not risk confounding the issue. Even when the checklists themselves may be context-specific and/or ambiguously worded.

Regards, Peter
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