The 73NG spends most of the cruise phase with about 3 degrees nose up pitch, nearly 90% N1 on the thrust and stab about 6.0.
All #s easily divisible by 3, a frequent and useful number in aircraft, so if I was ever to end up in AF447s predicament I would set these and keep the blue side up and the brown side down til we fell out of the other side of ITCZ or whatever was giving us grief, then reassemble the flight profile and if appropriate, carry on.
Thanks to this accident & forum for causing me to note these NORMAL settings, so's I have an instantaneous datum to set whilst waiting for my oppo to come back from the bog, when we can then start chasing QRH and DODARing and all the follow-up housekeeping items.
Has anyone else quietly looked at their own 'frames settings since and filed it away for ready reference til there's time to perform the UAS drill?
This is in addition to the normal pitch 'n power settings we hopefully know for other flight phases.
