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Old 5th Feb 2015, 10:45
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Ian W
 
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Originally Posted by oldoberon
a lot of the discussions on the airbus fbw and just what is HAL capable of have questioned whether airbus actually do stall testing to garner data, does this post from way back throw any light on that

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Originally Posted by AM
The Concorde prototypes had a crew escape hatch
I'm not sure what your point is, but all the Airbus prototypes I've been on have had crew escape hatches. They would be used in case something went very badly during any of the many stall tests that were done
If that is the case it seems somewhat dilatory to not provide the aircraft stall and post stall behavior information to the simulator designers. The sim behavior would be then be correct; and we are repeatedly told that it is not as there is 'no data' to base the behavior on.
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