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Forum: Tech Log

29th May 2011, 19:29

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AF447 Thread No. 3

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Posted By RatherBeFlying

Uncloggable Airspeed Sensor

In my boyhood I was familiar with a number of biplanes where the airspeed sensor was a flat plate on a coil spring mounted against a scale on the interplane struts. However icing would change the...

Forum: Tech Log

29th May 2011, 13:02

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AF447 Thread No. 3

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Posted By RatherBeFlying

Well said:ok: However if after establishing...

Well said:ok:

However if after establishing 80% and 3 NU the descent rate remains virtually straight down, you need some serious nose down to get out of the stall (said from my armchair after...

Forum: Tech Log

28th May 2011, 19:30

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AF447 Thread No. 3

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Posted By RatherBeFlying

Certainly one would think so. In this case...

Certainly one would think so.

In this case we see that Attitude+Power was not obtaining the Performance one would normally expect.

The crew seem not to have realised they were in the stall...

Forum: Tech Log

28th May 2011, 14:23

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AF447 Thread No. 3

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Posted By RatherBeFlying

Why the backstick?

The consensus seems to be an incredulity as to why on Earth the PF held backstick? None of us would ever do that.

Speculation: PF felt the stall warning was triggered by a 10000'/min downdraft --...

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