Originally Posted by
KayPam
You all really really (really) need to stop with that nonsense.
Have you ever stepped foot in an airbus cockpit ?
If you had seated at a pilot's seat, you would have immediately seen that.. you CAN see the other pilot's sidestick from your seat !
Seeing is one thing, understanding what is input is another. No Airbus pilot stares at another's sidestick to ascertain input. PM, initially, commented about VS, or altitude, not "stop pulling, we climb...!" Besides, the sidestick is not articulated as a wheel, but nudged, released, and 'stirred'......
Each stick moves independently, they are not connected, and trying to suss manual movements of the opposite stick is not appropriate?
A climb can be sustained, and is, by the aircraft with the stick mostly in neutral, hence "nudge"? The stick commands an attitude. Once selected, the "climb" is self sustaining, and must be countered with forward stick. The climb reached a rate of 7000fpm at one point, 1.75 G?
Is this about right, KayPam?
As to Colgan, the "surprise", the STALL warning, occurred because the Stall bug speed was set to anti ice ON, and had not been selected correctly; Captain had a great deal of excess room to maneuver, the Stall warn was bogus. It sounded at fully twenty knots high. Sad.