Originally Posted by
Lyman
Surprising to me was the THS cranking in when the beginning of the "momentum only" portion of the "climb" began.
It's not rocket science - the THS is unloading the elevator demand commanded by the PF, as per design.
At the top of the trajectory, what tells the load system monitor to adjust?
The pilot's commands vs. the current aircraft attitude. Remember that in Alternate Law and below, the system is designed to defer to the human pilot and will not interfere with any command given. The flight control system has no concept of stall or operational ceiling with hard protections inoperative - even in Normal Law it only understands and acts on Alpha Max.
Dozy?.."The evidence ... very clearly implies that the aircraft was controlled into the stall."
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Boy howdy.....
How else would you describe consecutive and sustained back-stick commands?