HazleNuts39
Yes, the logic is not there to decide to switch off the AutoPilot...
The paper is disingenuous, for it announces first A/P switched off, then AlphaProt..
It could be a mistake, but it is glaring.
The crew and the airplane must wait for Mach to trigger the Protection.
It is like an "Ambush", a Gotcha..... Not unknown in this aircraft, its talent for the surprise....
A corollary... Bonin applied aft stick, and accomplished a frustrating lack of response (in his mind). We dismiss his actions as silly, but when the aircraft itself mimics Bonin, (though opposite in Pitch direction), we defend the machine, though it is quite obviously hazardous in its performance?
Both aircraft EVA And AF are victim to similar scenario... One lived to tell it in person...
It takes prejudice to dismiss the potential for disaster in the one, and accept with disapproval the actual accident accomplished in the other....
330 -1
Bonin -1
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