Originally Posted by
blind pew
But it posses another question in that is there rudder pedal feedback from what the rudder is doing?
Well, not an Airbus systems expert by any means, but I have done a fair amount of reading on the investigation of the AA crash. The A300 is not a Fly-By-Wire airplane like the later A320 series. There is a mechanical link between the rudder pedals and the rudder control. That said, if I understand it correctly (and I may not) , rudder motions commanded by the yaw damper are isolated from the rudder pedals by the differential control unit which blends yaw damper input and rudder pedal input. So, if that is all correct, then the fact that the Flight Data Recorder recorded rudder pedal movements in synch with the rudder movements, that seems to strongly suggest that the rudder movements were not commanded by the Yaw damper. As I understand it, all rudder movements which were not commanded by the pilot are commanded through the yaw damper.