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by rbanffy 1382 days ago
I imagine it's for an abundance of caution, as they are flying these planes way outside what their normal operations manual recommends. I assume a 320 NEO or a 737 MAX would slap the hand of the pilot if they attempted to go for a +50 degree climb and scream expletives in the voice alert system.
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Okay you just gave me a mental image of an Airbus autopilot system so angry at you it starts swearing in French. Totally agree with safety and ‘normal use case this is not’ situation.
Bombardiers will issue a stream of Québec sacres:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity

It kind of does already: https://youtu.be/vmbzKsqKQoI#t=30s
Defaulting back to it's `native` language (of the programmers). That would be hilarious and should be on the next AirPlane spoof.

Mel Brooks, where are you!

I thought about a cartoon robot articulated arm with a white glove trying to wrestle the control column from the pilot.
Or the autopilot computer ejects by itself with a small parachute. Very Looney Tunes!
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Well...in MS Flight Simulator, I know the voice alerts will yell at you to warn you about terrain, of if your AoA is too great ("Sink rate!").

But they don't care about high climb angles until you eventually stall.