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Originally Posted by Jimmy Hoffa
i know that his stick pusher was a result of getting ridiculously slow, however I have had a stick pusher due to severe turbulence, and it wasn't on final so we had plenty of extra airspeed. The stall warning into shaker into pusher happened in less than a second, couple that with the master warning bell blaring at you because of an autopilotfail on the EICAS, while you are still dealing with severe turbulence, and things can become very confusing, very quickly. When all of a sudden the yoke is pulling away from you because of some computer logic, your first instinct is going to be to pull back, regardless of how many times you do it in the sim.
I am just trying to bring some insight into all these monday morning quarterbacks who are so willing and able to throw our own under the bus, when they weren't there.
I hate in this instance when people keep using the phrase "Monday morning quarterbacking". What do you think is going to happen when you goof up and kill a bunch of people? Your actions are going to be scrutinized to the Nth degree.
Yes, we weren't there. It could happen to anyone of us (loss of airspeed). But all of us are trained to how to react to a stall. They got the stall warning a couple of seconds (I forget how many) before the pusher. Yes, it is going to get your attention, but the damn stall warning going off should have before that!
The ironic part is, the stick pusher was trying to do exactly what needed to be down ... lowering the nose.
The situation you described (high speed buffet in turbulent cruise) is very much different than theres.
Its a hard thing to admit; our fellow aviators and friends goofed up in the most basic way. For the sake of our family, friends, and passengers, that nobody else does this. We're better than that.