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Old 06-11-2009 | 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ExperimentalAB
Reading some interesting stuff today about Pilots and Automation, and came across a study in which a Pilot mentioned that they sometimes don't know who is control: machine or airplane? He cited Roselawn as an example, in that during the dive one of the Pilots re-selected flaps, but the computer overrode them because they were above Vfe...

Has anybody heard any mention of a flap re-selection during the dive?
Never heard of it...and we went through that accident in excruciating, gut-wrenching detail at the school house.

Alas, the ATR is not quite that sophisticated. If you select flaps 300kts above Vfe, they will go down - it'll ***** at you, but there is no overriding.
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