FD in a stall
The Air France and Air Asia accidents got me thinking about something. What would the FD show while the aircraft descended in a stall?
Will it still be giving commands to capture the FCU altitude? I'm wondering if the PF in each of those accidents, being confused, simply reverted to what they'd been taught so often- "just follow the FD". Would that explain the prolonged nose up inputs?
I wonder how much time each of those pilots had spent flying without the FD? I've seen multiple cases where a student is having trouble flying the aircraft, the instructor will keep pressuring the student to simply follow the FD.
Could these accidents have been cases of pilots blindly trying to follow the FD, and never trying to look behind the bars?