You would swear Airbus's were falling out the sky on a daily bases the way some of you are carrying on.
As for the pearls of wisdom about the side stick and instruction. Both the Capt and F/O have thousands (probably 12 000-15 000 between them) of hours on Airbus aircraft. When you are busy with a A330 CCQ no one is trying to teach you how to land. You figured that out about 10 000hrs ago. Don't confuse C172 instruction with a wide body CCQ. The only teaching going on would have been about the management of a twin long range operation vs a quad long range operation. So I think everyone can calm down regarding the side stick issue. It isn't an issue and hasn't been for 20 yrs.