Uplinker, F16 I wonder if your family was on board this flight would you still say the same things? Actually the stick half forward on A320 is for standardization with other airbuses(wide bodies).It is not critical on A320. The badly out of range CG was the cause. Stick forward wouldn't have prevented the pitch up. Pilots are trained to reject takeoff for anything unusual during low speed phase and that is enough. No one can be trained for RTO with hundred different reasons.