Hello Porterhouse,
Your are probably right that I am missing some points on all that fly by wire stuff. I am flying the old lady with her old fashion cables.
And YES I ment THEY in stead of HE.
BUT is it an academic exercise?
When I look at the NTSB video. I see at 560 an aircraft on centre-line, on speed and on glide-path, with not enough thrust with a high rate of descent (although not dramatic). I dare to say this happens many times a day in the world, for several reasons. Most of those flights increase power and land normally. Some of them probably do that while knowing that the should have made GO-ARROUND because they were not stabilized at 500ft. A few of them might even have the same problem as the ASIANA guys but were saved by an AT, because that time they made other MCP selections.
I think it's quite interesting to try to find out WHY the Asiana guys did not increase power earlier.
Do you agree that the system must have kicked in?
I am not saying it was a contributing factor........I am just keeping the option open.
I don't agree with your remark about the weather. Weather we can't control........we can however control system design.