AF356 tailstrike in yyz

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Originally Posted by Sailvi767

. As trust is transitioned to go around power there is a significant amount of time passing and runway moving behind you. Pilots will often start rotating early in this situation.

So, pilots acting on the rotation as an open-loop series of stick inputs, without closed-loop reaction to the pitch attitude and rate

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Originally Posted by Fursty Ferret

Sort of - there are still pitch rate modifiers to the elevator demand.

If this is true then I stand corrected - but then also it's not really direct law. And of course what it really is, is a different question from what the simplified literature calls it.