Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Several people told me similar things, but it was very unhelpful to me because it did not explain what I was doing wrong, (which was not centring the stick after every input: I was holding each input too long, and the attitude went beyond what I wanted so I had to correct in the other direction, hence a PIO). Vilas's reply in #12 explains the system and use of the arm rest very well and would have helped a lot.
After teaching myself how to correctly use the side-stick and FBW combination, I became quite proficient in handling the aircraft, (he says modestly
).
A very early Airbus publication A320 Flight Deck and Systems Briefing for Pilots had this to say:
"control inputs are made to alter the flight path, not to hold it."