Evan dismissed this accident too quickly in the other thread.
As he said, it is quite complex and I am still struggling to understand the facts.
But in summary, it seems that due to a number of issues and conflicting information FOUR FLIGHT CONTROL COMPUTERS gave up on the elevator, leaving it frozen at zero, not providing even direct law control for which as far as I know said computers don't need any information or input other than the sidestick input, which was not compromised.
And, as a side note, here we have an Airbus pilot facing a very confusing situation and improvising a procedure where there was none (for loss of pitch control in take-off or landing) and resorting to manually turn the trim wheel to have some degree of pitch control, in an airplane where you NEVER make trim inputs (neither with switches or manual mechanisms) except in the sim or in a very bad day.
At the same time, the same pilot did NOT improvise and strictly followed the procedure to reset the ELAC to fix the ELAC PITCH FAULT message that was triggered.... 4 times. Maybe some more improvising and saying "ok, 2 is enough, let's land this thing now" would have been in order.
As he said, it is quite complex and I am still struggling to understand the facts.
But in summary, it seems that due to a number of issues and conflicting information FOUR FLIGHT CONTROL COMPUTERS gave up on the elevator, leaving it frozen at zero, not providing even direct law control for which as far as I know said computers don't need any information or input other than the sidestick input, which was not compromised.
And, as a side note, here we have an Airbus pilot facing a very confusing situation and improvising a procedure where there was none (for loss of pitch control in take-off or landing) and resorting to manually turn the trim wheel to have some degree of pitch control, in an airplane where you NEVER make trim inputs (neither with switches or manual mechanisms) except in the sim or in a very bad day.
At the same time, the same pilot did NOT improvise and strictly followed the procedure to reset the ELAC to fix the ELAC PITCH FAULT message that was triggered.... 4 times. Maybe some more improvising and saying "ok, 2 is enough, let's land this thing now" would have been in order.
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