Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
Glass cockpits have some features that are initially counter intuitive.
Speed limit indicators that come down and an altitude tape that comes down indicating a climb.
Asking for flaps 5 followed by an expectation bias (speed limit moving up) and a speed limit moving down (flaps 15) could lead to an impulsive reaction of pushing pitch down to stay out of the “red”.
At least it can’t be ruled out as a possibility.
Was the PF prior experience mostly on analog?
Was the PM somewhat passive?
Did they have a prior experience, as in a Captain that starts every conversation with “on the classic we….” vs a FO that hit every downturn in the industry (number of types?) that’s just there for the paycheck? No offense but it’s a human factors combination we cannot rule out.
I suspect the fact he was a high time Airbus pilot with low time in the 777 has a bearing on what happened. With the Airbus always autopilot on in normal law, providing full time control stick steering, instrument scans tend to atrophy.
It doesn’t help that at least at my former airline they require probably no more than 5 minutes of hand flying on any given sim session. If the NTSB wanted to do something positive after this incident they would require far more hand flying in recurrent.