Owain
If you look in the FCTM under Operational Philosophy, Protections, High Angle of Attack Protections, there is a graph that makes it pretty clear that V alpha max is short of V Stall 1g
Alpha Prot also increases by 1degree in the last 50ft provided the Config remains the same. That's not in the books as far as I know.
There is also a graph below that one that makes the point that FBW aircraft significantly outperform non FBW aircraft when it comes to pulling up suddenly from low speed in the approach Config at Vapp converting to max AoA.
Type in Airbus 320 phugoid damping into google and a couple of interesting articles come up.
Last edited by Ashling; 25th Mar 2013 at 13:04.