Originally Posted by
CaptainProp
Here, a fully serviceable airbus 319 stalled:
Not quite - they got as far as Stall Warning, but that is fired before entering the stall regime itself. Of course you'll get the warning in the event of unusually changeable wind conditions if you let the AoA deteriorate to that extent.
Originally Posted by
TURIN
Are there still pilots out there that think an Airbus cannot be stalled?
In any control law state?
I would hope not, because the FCOM is very clear on the matter, and always has been.
Originally Posted by
WhyByFlier
Normal law, unreliable airspeed caused by blocked pitots (the ASI behaves like a VSI)
UAS condition takes at most 1 second for the EFCS to detect, and will cause instant reversion to Alternate Law and suspension of hard protections.
Originally Posted by
drfaust
These computers are slow.
Compared to modern tech yes, but the CPU types involved range between 10,000 and 25,000 operations per second, which is perfectly adequate - and then some - for the kind of calculations we're talking about. In High AoA Protection Mode the systems are also designed to log trends, which in effect provides a crude "look-ahead" function to orient the aircraft accordingly.
All this is a bit of a sideline though - the first two answers pretty much nailed it.