Originally Posted by OK465
1. release the SS, i.e. FCS positions the elevator to hold what?
You definitely would have to apply forward SS until starting to pull up. How much SS I don't know.
This post has a graph that shows the normal acceleration NZw.
Another post shows it for another trajectory.
N.B. In these graphs NZw is the acceleration normal to the flight path, whereas it is usually measured normal to the airplane's longitudinal axis.