What is the Airbus? Part 2: Alternate Law & Stalling with a Real Airbus Pilot X Plane 11 ToLiss A321 

Thanks for watching and your kind words! As always this is only for use in flight simulator at home, of course always follow your airline SOPs and manuals. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment though, it is always appreciated!

You’re very welcome Richard!

It’s an amazing machine indeed, thank you for watching Pavel!

You are very welcome, thank you for watching and commenting!

Thank you for your support, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Im glad the format worked for you with the small distractions! I very much hope so too to be flying again

Thanks for watching, I'm glad this video made sense, it is quite a big topic as you know. There were of course a lot of factors in those incidents, hopefully something that everyone has learned from.

Many factors led to the crash of AF447, too many to oversimplfy the errors being made. But to take your example of not hearing the stall warning: Has it ever happened that you have misheard or even not heard anything? For example, the doorbell or someone saying something but you were so busy thinking that you could not hear it? This is called tunnel vision and in my opinion, that is exactly what happened to the pilots. Both pilots were so preoccupied with the decrease in altitude that they blanked out everything else around them. This demonstrates that human factors (especially situational awareness) play a critical role in flying a modern commercial aeroplane with a high degree of automation, such as an Airbus; in my opinion just as important as flying the aircraft itself. Several minutes passed between the first stall warning and the impact in the ocean. So, the pilots could have taken some time to get an overview of the situation before figuring out by both, pulling and pushing on the stick. People often say that a pilot should “Aviate, Navigate & Communicate” in precisely this order. I do not say that this is not true but I think it is not enough. I believe, “orientate” is also very important and should be taken even before “Aviate” so you will remain situational awareness in the cockpit.

It is now widely accepted that Bonin was in a startled state which led to inability to apply logic and training. In this state. The brain reverts to a primitive mode and is only capable of primitive tasks. It requires training to be able to recognise and control this state. The better airlines do this training.

Thanks for your comment, will do!

Thanks for watching!

Hi Holger, glad you enjoyed it! Great question, if you are already past the overspeed for Flaps 1 then no I wouldn't select it (the orange = sign will be the easiest clue!) Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching as usual Thomas! I’ll have a closer look at that in the near future. If you don’t select no Star then it will load up the full arrival. Changing the arrival in the FMGC during the approach takes some careful programming!

320 Sim Pilot thank you. I have tried for example loading the secondary flight plan with parallel runway just incase but still wants to begin again from the STAR transition

@@tomstravels520 you need to make the waypoint ahead of you the to waypoint be entering it into line 2L on your MCDU. THEN select NAV and it should work.

@@peteconrad2077 I found this out in the 11 months since I posted but thanks for confirming

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Hi Hugo, what you say is correct. In Alternate law the pitch is still controlled with G force like in normal law. And it will auto trim when working in a normal speed range. Make sure you landing gear is UP, when it is down the aircraft will be in ‘direct law’ instead which is quite different!

No I would never do that, if I was too far below the green F or if the angle of attack was uncomfortable I would use the next stage of flap. Thanks for watching!

320 Sim Pilot ok thanks. I realise now I was mainly slowing down too quickly so was flying at like 180knots one flap 1 but way too far from the runway

It could happen if you decided to stick at Flap 1 after a go around and commence the approach without going to flap zero.

CI is cost index. It indicates how much a particular flight will cost to fly. If the number is high, it is probably because the plane is flying fast and costing more. The opposite is true if the number is low.