Originally Posted by
sonicbum
It works perfectly well if you know how to do it and set yourself some reasonable gates. Intervention training is generally part of upgrade courses and is a big part of TRI courses. When we do qualify TREs for base training we spend at least an hour each in the sim to practice all sort of mismanaged handling at low height, it just takes a bit of practice.
As
Uplinker said bout the heat of the moment, sometimes there’s no time. An easy, intuitive solution to the problem they created is used by Boeing, Douglas (RIP) etc. Airbus put a lot of energy into human factors, but the uncoupled sidesticks (particularly in with the AP off) is a huge oversight, and fatal, as we’ve seen.