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Originally Posted by avandonk
You are dead correct Nesti. I have never liked fly by wire poorly implemented instruction.
As I said 'If you do not understand fully every system on your aircraft you should not be flying it!'
I used to regularly do 'chandelles ' in Cessnas and Pipers. Then our flying club got a Bellanca. I did the full aerobatic course.
I later had the fun of flying a Pitts and going all the way to flick rolls. It was also the first aicraft I did a tail slide in safely and legally.
Bert
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I agree with this comment Bert whole-heartedly,
'If you do not understand fully every system on your aircraft you should not be flying it!'
Now, you like aerobatics, right, you've mentioned it a few times so I'm assuming that you do. Okay. During aerobatics you have a good level of 'Situational Awareness', because you've built up your experiences in orientation and what it feels like, so you can think properly while doing aerobatics, handle an engine failure etc, right?! Well, if you ever get the chance do HUET Training, do it, and see what it's like to totally lose all situational awareness. When the helicopter simulator rolls up-side-down for the first time, all your planning goes straight out the window, your heart rate sky-rockets and you cannot think. bubbles go the wrong way and it damn confusing! Some people even try to swim to the bottom of the pool believing that way is up even when they can see. Because the situation is so out of the ordinary the human mind cannot cope. It can later, but that's because the mind is learning the more you do it...eventually you get accustomed to it and you can plan your movements and it's fine. My point here is that the very first time a person's mind is exposed to something completely new, it freezes while trying to recognize something familiar, something for reference. Not just attitude, but even in instrumentation. For the AF447 crew, a situation where everything critical to flying starts shuts-down may have broken their situational awareness and their brains reacted just like HUET dunking for the first time; it starts looking for something recognizable across the instrumentation; this takes time.