Originally Posted by
BobnSpike
In the Boeings you have to work at it to keep it stalled
Same with the Airbus - remember the PF was holding between 50-100% back stick for the majority of the sequence.
In the sim experiments we did, you had to really hold the stick back to keep the nose where the crew had it - because as the speed bled off, the nose clearly wanted to come down. Even with the THS all the way back, it was possible to recover using forward sidestick alone - which we did as we came back down through FL320, during which time the trim wheel obediently rolled back forward - and come out of the descent at around FL180.
Originally Posted by
BOAC
c) Full nose-up THS delivered by the software and sidestick demand.
The software aspect isn't really relevant - it was only doing what was asked of it by the pilot, as any other aircraft would.