Originally Posted by
retired guy
So, this is all a long time ago when the A320 was quite new. What I would be interested to know is, has anything changed since those first few weeks?
Does the current training on the Airbus go into any depth or is it still largely on a need to know basis?
I would say the FBW system is designed a lot better and Airbus ironed out the main bugs over the years. The various laws are reasonably well documented and trained for.
I'd say the main difference is Boeing slapped on a piece of dodgy software on a conventional design going back to the 60s, and they were found out -- whereas Airbus started from scratch, as Boeing should have done.