Lyman, I am so sorry, but I don’t agree with your #590 add-on.
I wonder if we have read the same other thread!
I need to read it again because I had understood all the opposite of what you wrote.
… what the pilots were experiencing in the cockpit on the way down.
The PITCH was consistently around 16 degrees,
the a/c was falling at about 1g,
and the airstream is assumed to have been LOUD
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Pitch is not relevant
Liners Pilots are not flying with their pants since a long time, and furthermore, they have order to distrust their sensations (which are often erroneous). The internal ears (semi-circular canals) are not precision gyroscopes.
Watch instruments!
The fall of about 1g
does not seem to me an appropriate remark, because we are only perceiving the
speed variations, thus only accelerations change ( positive or negative). 1 g is the earth acceleration, nothing abnormal !!
That to say, when speed is constant, you can’t feel it, flying at FL350 with G/S 550 kt
or stalling with V/S 160 kt.
the airstream is assumed to have been LOUD
Yes, of course: “j’ai l’impression” … “crazy speed”
As you wrote previously: “NO ONE knows what the screens showed ...”