Originally Posted by HN39
Would you be decelerating with increasing pitch attitude when you pull the sidestick?
Any scenario is possible.
Whatever the weight, configuration, and circumstances ... Airbus has one single procedure to be applied : PULL UP TOGA
Did any of them refused to deliver alpha max ? Not that I can remember.
Did any of them was under severe deceleration or pitch attitude increase ? To be honest I could not tell but I would be glad to experiment and report if only I had free access to a simulator.
In the investigation of the Hudson ditching, the NTSB accepted Airbus' explanation of the phugoid damping. In the Habsheim accident the airplane was decelerating more rapidly and the pitch attitude increasing more rapidly than in the Hudson ditching. The effectivity of the phugoid damping was convincingly demonstrated in the A340 level-bust incident.
Phugoid damping in Habsheim ... ?
Why not ?
But where has been the BEA on it ?
Why the NTSB or the investigators from Spain can detail how the elevators can refuse the pilot's orders, but the BEA is mute ... ?
What strikes me is how in Habsheim, New-York or Bilbao, the pitch authority has been compromised by features built into the system, whenever the aerodynamic had still more to deliver.