'Evening DonH,
See you've finally confirmed by the 2010 FCOM the third condition that was in the BEA Report of 2011 into the AF A340 Incident - but absent from the AAIB Bulletin about the A340 AIRPROX.
Thanks for posting the relevant extracts of a 2010 FCOM and a 2001 FCOM. We can infer that the 3rd condition/criterion may have been added as a result of the A340 AIRPROX event, although the AAIB's recommendations did not include it.
As one who has recently been arguing for easier disengagement conditions than those that seem to have applied at the time of the A340 AIRPROX, I must reiterate that the AF A340 Incident of 2011 does little to support that contention, as I admitted
yesterday.
Re. Alpha Floor inhibition
Do you have access to FCOM 2.22.30? Does it mention an inhibition at speed > M0.53?