Originally Posted by Clandestino
Deceleration was caused by the pull-up, not the other way around. Of course, anyone is entitled to disagree with my notion that cause precedes effect.
As RetiredF4 says "Do you actual read a post in conjunction with the referenced discussion or do you just look for some words to comment on?"
PF initiated the climb to "recover" the apparent 400 feet loss due to Mach correction.
That was the cause of the initial climb.
A side effect may have been that he suffered from Somatogravic illusion with an deceleration of 3 kts per second which may explain why he was seeking confirmation. (See Page 90 interim report 2011.)
"Ok. Ok. Ok. I am going back down?" (with a serviceable ADI in front of him) PNF then says "According to the three you’re going up so go back down"
PNF then selects ALT ATT "The ‘AIR DATA’ selector then the ‘ATT/HDG’ selector are positioned on “F/O on 3.
If they are not suffering from some Somatogravic illusion with regards to their attitude, why select ALT ATT?