SFI145
Moderators please do your job.
This is a professional pilot network.
Why every time there is an accident do we have page after page of theory before the accident report is published?
Actually I would have hoped for a more constructive response from someone who advertises in their public profile as being a simulator instructor. As an instructor you are supposed to asimilate and disemmiate information to your students especially in situations that don't happen often, if you are as portrayed a simulator instructor, you are in the best possible position to develop scenarios such as these for people to learn from.
Given that the B200 is an old bird now weighing less than 12500 lbs there is no requirement to have an FDR fitted, one way of fact finding is for people to discuss events such as these.
My own personal opinion is they had one small insidious failure in either the ADI system or pitot static system, departing in fog with no visual reference, falsely leading them to pitch down shortly after take-off, resulting in a high speed CFIT, exactly something that could be easily reproduced in a simulator for people to learn from.
That is the reason why you now teach "Unreliable Airspeed" indications in the sim, learning from the Air France crash, but then you would know that
