>>1861108>Alternate law means the plane will obey exactly what the pilot tells it to do, as opposed to normal law where the plane flies the same regardless of speed or weight.No you're thinking Direct Law. Alternate Law means you still only command load factor demand when yanking the stick back and forth but lateral control can either be exactly like in normal law (alternate law 1) OR with roll in direct where you actually end up controlling the flight surfaces directly like in direct law (alternate law 2) with yaw control in alternate with effectively only dutch roll protection remaining.
Bank angle and pitch attitude protection are always lost and High AoA and Low and high speed protections are either lost or in alternate depending on failure type. That's exactly the point: the pilots didn't really KNOW what kind of failure they were facing but all pitot tubes freezing over meant triple ADR fault so no AoA protection! They didn't even know whether they were in Alternate Law 1 or 2 which is why Bonin was yanking that plane left and right at the beginning, thinking he was still supposed to be giving load factor demand commands.
>The completely disconnected pilot and co-pilot flight controls are FAR more questionable, especially since it averages out two inputs rather than force one side to remain in control, and because the the only warnings for this is a barely visible screen display and an aural warning that is overriden by other more pressing (stall or airspeed) alarms. If i were a lawyer I would focus on that.I agree, it's a questionable design.
>The stall warning not sounding below 60 knots has to do with the airspeed indicator not working at that speed, although they could have probably used gear position to to confirm it the plane is on the ground and that the warning can be shut off.Yeah, I get why it deactivated tho, I mean gear position wouldn't have worked either but I get what your saying
