Yes, it can be flown, but getting it to the correct trim/thrust
settings isn't easy when you have severe turbulence, endless alarms,
flashing screens, warning horns, etc.
I want to know why the AUTOPILOT doesn't engage the "safe flight
mode" settings when it disengages rather than just going "oops, you
got it!" and going off line.
As I said before, the throttle levers will have to be manually reset
to work -- they do NOT move in autothrust, they stay wherever they
were when last manually moved. Not something I'd recommend, as it's
fairly critical to maintaining correct speed and a false position
indication ain't gonna help anybody when the world has gone crazy.
I believe the weather radar was fooling the pilots, as they were
flying through a mild thunderstorm just before encountering the
monster (and it was a monster). The supposition by the PBS assembled
experts was that the big storm was masked by the smaller one they
were in, and there was not time to evade when the local storm
backscatter cleared and there was a monster storm in front of them,
full of supercooled water mist. Hard to dodge when it's everywhere,
and you are actually seconds away from flying into it.
I would assume Air France pilots avoid monster thunderstorms and
hurricanes, daredevil behavior isn't high on the list of commercial
passenger pilots qualifications.
Joystick flight controls don't excite me either, there is no body
position feedback.
I'm curious to see what the flight deck conversation was, especially
after the autopilot kicked out.
Peter
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