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Old 18th January 2015 | 19:54
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NigelOnDraft
 
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The crew has rushed and was clearly poorly prepared, but how would you want them to check those 3 AOA values when only 2 are available and so only indirectly through the third MCDU ... ?
I have no idea, I am a mere Line Pilot who flies A320s. If I was undertaking a formal test schedule requiring these 3 values to be recorded, I am sure my preparatory material would inform me how.

A CHECK GW MCDU MSG is certainly NOT a CLEAR indication of AOA DISCREPANCY
It should be to a crew doing a test Flight about to bet their lives on the AoA protections. For a Line Crew, I might partially agree with your comment.

AOA DISCREPANCY ECAM MSG could have been presented to the crew
I am not sure a Line Crew really needs this - all it could really say is "don't stall" which they really should not be doing anyway That said, I suspect some form of additional internal AoA cross-checking will be incorporated to address the latest OEB - if only to detect "frozen" values when systems calculate the value should change more than x?
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