Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Or maybe change SOP to require the PF to call out his control inputs in situations where the airplane is not performing as expected.
Or just send everybody back to piper cubs for 100 hours.
Well, it could be looked at in a variety of ways. SOP would dicate to simply fly the freaking airplane. Regardless of whether it uses a FBW system or traditional cable/pulley, etc.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't that what the QA and NW crews did when they encountered a similar situation? Granted, I don't believe those crews were in the same turbulence level as AF was.
The flight recorder indicates that, without saying anything, he pulled back on the stick and, seemingly against all reason, kept the nose up, causing a synthesised voice to warn, “Stall! Stall!” in English as the airspeed began to drop dangerously. Robert took 20 or 30 seconds to figure out what was happening before ordering Bonin to descend. “It says we’re going up. It says we’re going up, so descend.” Seconds later Robert again called out, “Descend!” and for a few moments the plane recovered momentum and the stall warning ceased. But Robert was now anxious enough to call for the captain to return to the cockpit. Meanwhile, Bonin’s instinct was again to pull back on the control stick. He left it there despite the stall warning that blared out some 75 times. Instead of moving the stick forward to pick up speed, he continued to climb at almost the maximum rate. If he had simply set the control to neutral or re-engaged the autopilot, all would have been well.
OR, if one guy knew what was going on, just simply push the "side stick priority" button and say "my airplane" before the situation gets so out of hand it's unrecoverable.