A-Floor: Even the Fokker planes never had a sidestick. Maybe Boeing's 777 engineer-designers were not too impressed with the problems using an A-320 "control"-stick in a strong crosswind? Some of our A-320 pilots seem unsatisfied with the so-called "control" in such landing conditions, but maybe I would like it one day.
The planes flown by many of us (by choice) require a good bit more airmanship-there is no mode mgmt., which we had on the 757.
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