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Old 3rd Feb 2015, 19:36
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One thing I dislike about the Brand A use of a verbal "STALL, STALL" (instead of a stick shaker) is that humans have a tendency to filter out aural inputs when concentrating or highly stressed. Meaning the STALL warning may not even be heard when it's most needed.
Problem is, I'm not convinced that a stick shaker is much better - I can think of at least two Brand B crashes where the pilot pulled back in response to an erroneous overspeed indication and stalled, then apparently dismissed the stick shaker as 'Mach buffet' due to the perceived overspeed.
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