Originally Posted by
mi68guel
I say R rudder bank angle to the left, L rudder bank angle to the right....
Both the pictures you've posted say that "the lateral controls attempt to zero the roll rate," and nowhere in that does it say that it banks opposite. That is not zero roll rate. Yes it would be revealing to see what happens in the sim, and in all the decades and the countless people that have flown Airbus sims, someone would have probably noticed if it banks opposite.
You're reading too much into the part of the quote that "a sideslip is automatically performed," which is poorly worded and doesn't mean anything. Forget about that. Aerodynamically, sideslip is any time the the relative wind is misaligned from the axis of the airplane when looking from above, aka beta angle is not zero. (Much like thinking about AOA, or alpha angle, when looking from the side). This is only a part of the sideslip (or forwardslip)
maneuvers flown in small planes where the plane is cross-controlled so as to create an aerodynamic sideslip while preventing heading change.