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Old 11th Dec 2016, 13:24
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Originally Posted by Fursty Ferret
I imagine it stalls due to excessive loading at low speed. I can't see why it wouldn't unstall pretty promptly as speed increases, particularly as the electrical load would have shifted back to the batteries. Would the emergency generator couple to the network again automatically? Dunno. So you might end up having manually select it again as per ECAM.

A RAT stall in the go-around is perhaps not as unlikely as you'd think given the aircraft may be in direct law at the time of initiation and a massive overpitch and subsequent speed loss quite plausible. Moral of the story is to select the gear up first unless close to the ground.
Minimum approach speed is 140k executing a GA notwithstanding direct law a loss of 15k speed is poor flying.You never retract gear first in hurry. Dubai 777 is a stark reminder. Switching back and forth between batteries and Rat is not one time option it will happen as and when situation warrants automatilly.
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