There’s a fair degree of bitter mistruth about Ansett on this thread. Ansett never taught a TOGA-tap nor do I believe the crew in this incident were Ex-AN. I’ve flown with three Airbus operators with seven lots of SOP’s and Ansett’s initial training on flying the the A320 was excellent if of reasonable competency. Let’s not understate reasonable competency here, Airbus 320/330 has crashed four times on GA, with Nagoya stated above, being different technology in the A300. Anecdotally, the rapid rise of Jetstar with the Airbus wasn’t without its drama.
Ansett had an incident on GA in Sydney in the early days. The Capt took over however the FO still had side-stick input and the GA performance wasn’t met. Soon after the takeover procedure formally stated a requirement to push the takeover switch ( common sense )
Last edited by Gnadenburg; 23rd May 2022 at 07:43.