Originally Posted by
Lyman
Loss of Autopilot does NOT mean fly "PITCH AND POWER". It means fly...
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The fact that pilot started handling the a/c demonstrates his belief it needed handling, period, speeds or not.
Exactly - and "fly" is what they did not do. The question is why.
If we assume that incompetence (never trained how to fly the plane) and negligence (knew now to but failed to) are out, then
something caused PF to seek 10-15 degrees pitch up. Your (and RR and others) premise is that lack of precise indication of UAS from the outset is causative, right ?
So... perhaps you could humour this non-pilot and fill in the blanks, because I still don't understand how you get from:
- A/P has gone off, I have control
- Plane needs handling
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Plane hasn't told my WHY A/P dropped out
to...
- I need to pull up 10 degrees in cruise (even though that would normally be a crazy thing to do)
The only thing I can think of is airspeed indicated erroneously high (very high) -
but that didn't happen, it went erroneously low.
So, what was it ? What piece of garbage information presented to the crew could have lead to that response ?