If I were AA's lawyer, I'd have an A300B4 Rudder Response Simulator built.
Specifications:
- Swivel chair with seat belt
- Attached platform with rudder pedals that rotates with chair
- Mechanism to rotate chair and platform
- Rudder pedal travel -- 1 inch
- Breakout Force -- 22 pounds
- Full Deflection Force -- 35 pounds (as best I can recall)
- Yaw rate to pedal position ratios -- same as A300B4 at accident airspeed
- Initial external yaw -- same as encountered in wake just before rudder application
Bring to NTSB hearings and videotape reporters and pilots as they attempt to control yaw
