Originally Posted by AZR
I was under the impression that you were advocating that laws and their reversions were somehow "too hard to learn" for (average) pilots and thus that they should be modified in one way or another.
- not quite. I was suggesting that just as 'mode confusion' is a well-established derivative of our automotive cockpit, so reversionary modes could be causing confusion when infrequently experienced, and then only when things have 'gone wrong' and commonly (outside the sim) with genuine 'startle factor'.
In terms of a 'modification' I would not really know where to start. I suggested a long time ago (PGF) that from
my point of view (non-AB) I would have preferred a drop straight into 'Direct' where you know you simply have a basic aeroplane in your hands which, it is hoped, one can fly. Thus none of the (eg) 'divergence' of roll law from pitch law which I understand happens as the laws degrade - all or nothing for me.
Originally Posted by HN39
The single 'rule of flying' that I see is that in general you should not rely on the protections because they may not always be present.
- so we are back almost full circle. Was the 447 PF '
relying' on some electronic guardian angel to look after him while he (following the FD?), zoom climbed and then tried to keep the nose up? If so, that is the boil that needs lancing.