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Old 21st May 2013, 23:15
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Originally Posted by Chu Chu
...I'm not seeing how you could have a false stall warning at that speed (absent weight on the wheels). Since the aircraft would be stalled, any warning would be accurate.
No guarantee that the aircraft would be stalled if the <60kts reading was false.

Apparently the designers decided a stall warning that would never work below 60KTS was better than one that would sometimes fail below that speed.
I don't think the designers made a conscious decision in that regard - it's so far outside the flight envelope that it probably wasn't considered at the time.
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