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Old 14th May 2013 | 01:02
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I watched it live in Sydney on the free to air 9 network last night.
It was pretty useless. Nothing new at all. Don't loose any sleep over it.
So did I and I was awake half the night wondering why the PF chose to pull back on the side stick after the AP disconnected and apparently kept the back pressure on the side stick pretty much all the way down to the point of no recovery.

It also brought home to me that in the middle of the pitch black night in the middle of nowhere you are absolutely reliant on your instruments, and why did none of them notice the pitch-up attitude on the AH and do what any student air cadet glider pilot should have done instinctively, i.e. lower the nose?

The fact neither pilot could see the other pilot's sidestick position is also a huge concern. I won't revisit the customary "wouldn't happen on a non FBW brand of aircraft" discussion but it would perhaps have helped had PNF been able to discern the PF stick input.
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