The scarebus is at it again!

[Tupac]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034685/Air-France-jet-autopilot-fails-drama-echoing-Brazil-crash.html

If it aint Boeing I'm not going.

[jocko-]

If I could rename your post to "Air France is at it again"... seems flying through thunderstorms (which will most definitely toss a Boeing around just as violently) hasn't been identified as as a bad thing yet at AF.

[Pigslilspaz]

I never trust Airbus personally, Boeing has been in the game for nearly a century.

[Tupac]

If I could rename your post to "Air France is at it again"... seems flying through thunderstorms (which will most definitely toss a Boeing around just as violently) hasn't been identified as as a bad thing yet at AF.

The autopilot has nothing to do with air france......just the lemons that are Airbuses.

[Tupac]

High Speed Protection

High speed protection prevents aircraft damage due to excessive speed. High speed
protection activates slightly above VMO/MMO, at the speed depicted by a green equal
sign.

When high speed protection activates:

• The autopilot(s) disconnect.

• Nose down pitch trim is inhibited.

• The flight control computers attempt to limit further acceleration by commanding a gentle pitch up. This protection limits maximum airspeed by automatically increasing the aircraft’s pitch attitude even if the sidestick is held full forward.

• The bank angle limit is reduced from 67° to 45° (limit marks do not move).

"Positive spiral stability becomes active at all bank angles (instead of the usual 33° in normal law). Therefore, the sidestick must be held to maintain any bank angle. If the sidestick is released the aircraft returns to a bank angle of 0°.

The CRC and MASTER WARN lights activate and an O/SPEED (overspeed) warning is displayed on the E/WD. The CRC can only be silenced by slowing down or pushing the EMER CANC pb. Holding the sidestick full forward will allow some exceedance of the limit speed (this permits limited maneuvering if necessary). The amount of forward sidestick held and
the rate at which the sidestick was moved forward affects how far the aircraft’s speed will increase above VMO/MMO. If the pilot holds the sidestick full forward, the speed will stabilize above VMO/MMO. When the sidestick is returned to neutral, the speed will return to VMO/MMO. High speed protection is deactivated when the aircraft decreases below VMO/MMO."

I wouldn't want to fly an airplane that thinks for itself, especially one that will override the pilot.

[MachFly]

The autopilot has nothing to do with air france......just the lemons that are Airbuses.

Not just Airbus. The DA42 wont let me me use full motion of controls when the power is bellow 20%. I'm not a big fan of that feature but it's not that bad.
As far as I know F-22 actually has the same thing but when the gear is down.

[Tupac]

Not just Airbus. The DA42 wont let me me use full motion of controls when the power is bellow 20%. I'm not a big fan of that feature but it's not that bad.

So how the heck do you do a power off stall?

edit: I wasnt thinking. I guess you just do a power off stall without full range of motion?

[MachFly]

So how the heck do you do a power off stall?

edit: I wasnt thinking. I guess you just do a power off stall without full range of motion?

It can be done. It just ends up being a very flat stall which does not last very long.

[cpxxx]

Ignoring the typical over the top newpaper story. The Daily Mail is a rag at best. The reason it didn't follow the AF447 disaster is because the crew didn't attempt to recover from a stall by holding the stick fully back all the way to the ocean. Basic flying skills come into play here. It resemble the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo, the pilot of that flight trying to fly out of a stall by adding full power and pulling back on the stick.

Boeing or Airbus or anything else short of a jet fighter, add full power and pull back on the stick and you're going down.

There is a debate now on a lot of pilot forums that basic flying skills have been eroded with so much automation. As a result when the automatics drop out, pilots lack the training to recover and fly the old fashioned way. An obvious exception would be one Captain Sullenberger, whose idea of fun on his days off was gliding. Not much more basic than that.

[MachFly]

Ignoring the typical over the top newpaper story. The Daily Mail is a rag at best.

Yeah I always wait for the official report, news does not tell you anything useful and half the time they are wrong.

[-tronski-]

I never trust Airbus personally, Boeing has been in the game for nearly a century.

The autopilot has nothing to do with air france......just the lemons that are Airbuses.

In 2005 a MH B772 had an autopilot failure which caused the aircraft to an uncommanded climb and exhibit stall warnings on route to PER from KUL.

3rd party companies provide the software for the ADIRU - Honeywell provide them for Airbus and a number of different Boeing aircraft. QF72, an A332, had a major incident using a Northrup Grumman supplied unit.

 Tronsky

[deSelys]

About AF 447:

While the logic of some protections or alerts of the AB raise some questions (i.e. elevator autotrim allowed to go fully up in alternate law while the AOA is way above max - stall warning inhibited below 60 kts IAS without WOW or even with gear up), AF training is much more debatable due to the counter-intuitive (for a pilot) actions of the crew. The 'bus ended in the water because it did wat the crew asked it to do IMO (initial climb after AP disconnect up to the coffin corner, then hold a nose-up attitude)

That being said, you can't fault Airbus for the aerodynamic design of their planes: the AF447 didn't enter a spin while it was in a full stall and while the PF (and the PNF in the last moments) were making mayonnaise with the side-stick(s)....

[deSelys]

About Boeings supposedly being logic-fault free:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/06/26/343738/ba-747-crew-commended-for-escaping-near-stall-on-take-off.html

Only difference with AF447: a crew fully alert (take-off vs 'boring' phase of flight in the worst hours of the night, attention-wise) and a FO with aerobatic experience.

[MachFly]

Not just Airbus. The DA42 wont let me me use full motion of controls when the power is above 20%. I'm not a big fan of that feature but it's not that bad.
As far as I know F-22 actually has the same thing but when the gear is down.

I think I was half asleep when I wrote that, fixed now.
Tupac, I automatically thought you were asking about power on, so the answer is the same.

[flight17]

Basic flying skills come into play here. It resemble the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo, the pilot of that flight trying to fly out of a stall by adding full power and pulling back on the stick.

You sure you want to stick to that post as is without adding anything else?