look,
The AA maneuver program was NEVER what it has been claimed to be. It was simply to add COIRDINATED rudder. Yes there was discussions of fighers and other things, but it was only to ILLUSTRATE a point.
It was in response to a series of loss of controll accidents at other airlines in which the use of the controlls would have saved the aircraft.
infact the A310/A300 is one of the aircraft that precipitated the course when the Romanian A310 crashed simply because of the jammed auto thottle and the pilots did not make aggressive enough use of the controlls available to them and the aircraft turned over on its back killing all aboard.
yeah yeah yeah, you are right, a lot of spin from airbus.
A lot of people judging the course based on the what? Have you TAKEN the course? I have. It is NOT as you describe.
Cheers
Wino