Originally Posted by
CONF iture
Please do not spread disinformation, that captain was definitely not relying on A-FLOOR to get the thrust on.
I don't think Chris was intentionally misinforming - let's face it, the story has been misremembered and re-told in slightly different ways so many times over the years - especially in the media - that deviations like that are pretty much the norm. It's pretty much only pedants like me and you who are militant about getting it right!
Originally Posted by
CONF iture
Indeed - however your comment here:
Nothing is that simple with the airbus, a very complex machine indeed.
seems at odds with what was actually changed. It used to be that to cancel AoA protection - in which the nose comes up - one had to push the nose back down, which seems reasonably intuitive to me. The change meant that leaving the stick in neutral for a certain period of time would also return you to Normal Law - again, not exactly rocket science.