At four thousand feet, descending at 120 knots, I might consider a last will and testament, though a short one, an aural one, with a keyed mic.
Lonewolf. From the outset of the report of the loss of this a/c, I suspected the pilots were betrayed by the aircraft. I did not necessarily conclude they were without blame, but something did not add up. One of my hundred or so theories early on was that the crew followed the 'bird' into the drink. If ADR can fail, my mindset would be to fly, and trouble shoot. ANC is swell, but sometimes they get rearranged, and there was no teamwork here. I frankly did not suspect any, Teamwork is disincentivised when troubleshooting is trained to be snail paced, and recovering the flight path is URGENT.
Get out the freaking BOOK?
."what raises or lowers the nose."
You forget, the NOSE is secondary. What raises and lowers the tail is the deal.
My instructor told me to be aware of the cause, not the result. Looking at the nose instead of thinking about the tail?
Last edited by Lyman; 26th Jul 2012 at 13:15.