Originally Posted by
OK465
I've got a question....if you're trying to duplicate something in a simulator, why would you do something 3 seconds early and more aggressively?
At a guess, I'd say the sim run that generated that particular data was not an attempt to duplicate the accident sequence, but to determine the limits of system behaviour. In this case they were probably trying to ascertain what difference more prompt and decisive action may have made, if any.
If I've understood previous posts on the subject, the simulator available at that time was still being refined in terms of aerodynamic response when compared to the real aircraft. If this is correct, then sim runs would really only have been of use in terms of defining systems behaviour. The real world run over the Toulouse runway would probably have been more along the lines of an attempt to duplicate the flightpath.