Or you could have flown the torque and attitude had you been straight and level
– something which those poor Air France pilots failed to do. I was reading the
report at work the other day (I teach spatial disorientation to military
aircrew) and noted that they maintained 40 deg AOA for the last part of the
aircraft’s descent.
If the poor chaps had only held a decent attitude until the probes started
working again . . .
Chris
> On 7 Jun 15, at 16:09, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In a similar experience, I was flying a C-130E from Harrisburg to Erie to
> do practice approaches. It was January, and we passed through a layer of
> dense clouds, which caused ice to form on the nose. When the ice broke
> loose, it jammed both pitot tubes, and it took a couple of minutes for the
> heaters to work it loose. In the meantime, we had no airspeed indication so
> we just maintained torque and rate of climb.
>
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