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Old 26th Sep 2017, 14:11
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Treble one
 
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Originally Posted by gr4techie
It doesn't have a fully automatic "hands off" system. But a button the pilot can press. Then the flying control computers will then automatically get the Typhoon straight and level (or slightly nose up? I can't remember?)
I think it's called Disoriented Recovery Function.

To answer you second question, a lot of aircraft have flying control computers that won't but the aircraft into a stall or spin. I believe this stall preventer once caused an Airbus to crash during a low and slow flypast when the computers prevented an increase in pitch as the Airbus was approaching a forest at the end of the runway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296

Thank you gr4techie


I had thought maybe that if a pilot G-LOC ed that the release in pressure from the stick would be detected and this function would be automatically activated by the on board computers. It would seem not.
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