WOK :
Do you have any sort of flight envelope protection on the Concorde FBW system ?
Nice to handfly ?
Anyone out there who has flown the 777 to tell us a bit abaut their soft protections?
Windshear procedure ?
Pitch autotrim system when hand flying?
Does it also seek for 1 G when released with wings leveled hand flown ?
BRENOCH , maybe you can tell us , are you on the 777 ?
There is a good report by Ron Rogers called Flight tests results of the CFIT avoidance maneuver in FBW transports , March 1 99
available at Bluecoat forum "Reports"
It compares 777 vrs. A320/330
At conclusions/ Recomendations it basically
favors a bit on the Airbus , this mainly due to the better performance in closed loop escape maneuver results.
Evaluation team still favored the soft limits protection of the 777 based on the subjective judgement on the premise that there may be situations unforseen by the designers where the pilot might need to achive full aerodynamic capability .
Hard limits protection (With Override capability )to perform as good as the airbus on the closed loop escape maneuver and with automatic speedbrake retraction is recomended for the 777 .
Override authorithy for hard limit protection is recommended for future designs.
Makes sense to me Folks but better yet , read the article !!
[This message has been edited by manuel ortiz (edited 02 November 2000).]