Originally Posted by
HazelNuts39
Dozy, please read again ... in particular the legend which says "ɑMax Full aftstick - VɑMax". Then read the reply by Tester78 in post #27.
The FCOM says that VɑMax is another name for Vs1g.
Understood (and I did read it the first time
), however that's not what I was getting at. The FCTMs use very equivocal language when referring to the procedure of pulling back in High AoA Protection mode - e.g. "Alpha Max *may* be achieved" and "*Approximately* correspond[ing]".
Given Airbus's notorious pedantry when it comes to language, this choice of words seems to indicate that achieving the precise alpha value shown on the graph as "ɑMax Full aftstick - VɑMax" will not necessarily be the case if suitable conditions aren't met. Therefore CONF iture's argument that AF296's failure to achieve absolute Alpha Max is tantamount to a technical problem seems to be negated by the language used in the FCTM.