Originally Posted by Turbine D
I would not think reducing power and going down would be the thing to do as the speed would rapidly increase leading to a speed-speed warning.
It is a safe procedure as long there's nobody below.
It has been done by a few crews.
Idle + pitch on the horizon or slighly below do just fine.
Absolutely no risk of overspeed.
Just like a normal descent from cruise level.
There are times when following directions that, or should be, the basis of the word "Aviate" are really important.
To follow directions or switch to a memory item, you need first to understand what you are facing. For them the first signal was the alarm and the red ecam for AP disconnect - Probably also a sudden drop of indicated altitude - I don't think they realized they had to deal with an UAS scenario - Among the reported events, is it possible no one called for the UAS memory item, and no one deselected the FD ?
When it was getting obvious that UAS events in altitude were adding up, it would have been very wise to simulate such scenario during recurrent training : This, is what you may encounter, there are all the associated ecam and alarms, that's what your PFD may look like : THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
I am a bit disapointed we still have not done it in my outfit
Everything is so much easier when you have been properly demonstrated once.