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Old 15th Aug 2012, 17:09
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EMIT
 
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The law

Answer is:

It doesn't matter what law is active, as Pilot Flying you have to make the aircraft do what you want it to do!
When the nose goes to 15 degrees above the horizon at FL350, and if you don't want it there, your input should be stick forward untill the nose arrives there where you want it to be.

When Gums had his Leading Edge Flap event in the F-16, all he did was apply the necessary control inputs untill the aircraft behaved the way he wanted it.

The Sea Harrier pilot that lost his radome through a midair collision also suddenly had quite a different aircraft in his hands. Nose cone gone means also pitot tube gone (no more airspeed indication), aircraft no longer streamlined of shape, so lots of noise and vibration, radome and radar parts going into intake do not make the engine happy, etcetera. Quite a startle moment! Still, aircraft brought down safely.
The other aircraft involved, F-16, lost one horizontal tail - aircraft flew on as if nothing had happened: the marvel side of Fly By Wire.

This is not meant to imply that military pilots are always skygods, versus civvie nutcases, but it goes to show that not every possible failure can be practiced in the simulator. Gump already said it: life is like a box of choclates, you never know what you gonna get. Flying is just like life.

Not having practiced "it" in the simulator may mean that the execution may be somewhat less accurate than ideally possible, but the execution should never be a disaster, come on, flying is not that difficult.
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