| Sternjaeger II |
05-04-2012 08:52 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Osprey
(Post 419094)
Not being funny, but if your instruments are showing a very low airspeed, you have a nose up attitude but are falling like a brick then anybody who has any idea about flight would know that pulling back on the stick is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Even worse is to tell the other pilot that you've relinquished control when in fact you haven't and are still pulling back the stick all the way down into the sea. God knows what the junior pilot was thinking.
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For the average airline pilot the climbing/descent is controlled primarily by the throttle, not by the nose attitude. When you're used to a system that keeps your speed constant and you just input the angle of climb/descent with the joystick, you can easily forget about the common laws of physics.
The very first thing they teach you when you learn to fly is that your climb is given not necessarily by your pitch, but firstly by your throttle.
The scenario the young pilot found himself in was one where he was applying full throttle and the aircraft wasn't behaving the way he expected it to. He probably panicked and just kept on pulling on the stick because in his Airbus-trained mind that doesn't mean "keep the nose up" but "gain altitude".
That's the flaw of the system: you haven't lost control of the plane, because if you apply the right input the plane will come out of the stall, you're applying an input and expecting the plane to do something different.
Notice how the whole thing went on for several minutes, it wasn't just a fraction of a second wrong move. The guy really thought he was doing the right thing, and in a way he was, it's the whole malicious way in which Airbus aircraft can behave that is a major cause here, other than the fatal combination of ineptitude of the whole crew. |
