OK465;
No, I don't know whether we had 330kt gains. I'm probably not providing sufficient information but the exercise began at cruise speed, (273kts), I believe the sim/check pilot failed 3 ADRs for the exercise, the pitch was increased, the sim stalled and the recovery was started at various points in the descent. I realize control systems are capable of outside loops etc but of course there is no indication of the nature of few gains for the pilots and the FCOM isn't sufficiently detailed so I can't offer an accurate assessment of what we had. I believe we had full down deflection of the elevator as indicated on the Lower ECAM Flight Control page but I'd have to review the videos to confirm. One question I would have regarding "high gains" (or 1/4 elevator only available) is, would the THS still follow through? I expect it would as this is still a trimable force exerted by the elevators which would be trimmed out, but these are esoteric areas for a non-engineer pilot of these airplanes!
Last edited by PJ2; 1st Sep 2012 at 16:15.