Originally Posted by
pineteam
Not really. The opposite I would say. A friend of mine who is TRE, told me one pilot in the sim failed to recover a stall as he confused the pitch indicator with the bird. Plus it’s a bit laggy; That’s why the use of the bird is not recommended for dynamic manoeuvers such as go around and probably why in case of go around with the bird previously selected it will be automatically removed.
On my current type the bird is always on by design, and cannot be disengaged threw crew action. Once witnessed an event where the PF mixed up the FPA symbol with the pitch symbol eventually trying to pull +12 FPV instead of pitch during an OEI T/O on the simulator...