Originally Posted by
Mooneyboy
Thankyou everyone for your replies and insights. Genuinely very helpful.
Uplinker did try and find that video on YouTube o the Tornado sidestick but sadly couldn’t find it.
Sorry, I cannot offer an address for it - I just happened to see it somewhere down a youtube rabbit hole one day.
The Tornado was flying up a valley in Wales or Scotland I think, and you saw a view over the pilot's shoulder of his cockpit. You heard him say to his navigator through his oxygen mask, "I am coming left 10°". You could see his hand on the joystick, and he just went: nudge nudge, In other words; nudge - centre - nudge - centre, in very quick succession of less than a second - more of a digital input than an analogue one, almost like clicking a switch. You could see the aircraft bank and then stay in the new attitude he had put it in, without any further inputs from him.
Suddenly, everything about the Airbus Side-stick and FBW made sense for me, and the next time I flew the A320, I operated it in a similar way and it was a revelation to me.