What we have here is a failure to communicate
DEAR JOHN SMITH...
I see the problem...you don't understand that thousands of properly certificated FAA approved pilots did NOT KNOW THAT STOMPING ON THE RUDDER would cause the plane to fall apart.
thousands of us learned that if you were at or below Va and applied full control movement the plane would not fall apart.
it was on countless examinations and in FAA literature of the time.
Even while flying other planes, that had rudder LIMITATIONS and rudder limiters WE (PILOTS) were required by the FAA and OUR AIRLINES to memorize and display knowledge of limits imposed by design of the plane we were flying.
I can still explain how the rudder limiter system works on douglas systems and boeing systems and that if the limiter system fails we have to KNOW NOT TO USE TOO MUCH RUDDER ABOVE CERTAIN SPEEDS.
What the properly certified airline, training program, and pilots who were involved in the A300 inflight breakup DIDN'T know then is what you claim to have known all along.
Hence my advice about a placcard or a POH write up.
I'm glad you know...but I didn't and a whole airline didn't and the FAA didn't know.
But you knew.
yeah, right.
now we know...and maybe that's why the airbus is so junior at some airlines.
Last edited by flarepilot; 29th Sep 2013 at 18:26.