If you "suddenly wake up" after a jolt or bang, then the first pilots instinctive action is to grab the controls. In a Boeing you will get instant tactile feedback that "it" turns to ... and that the thrust is up high or low. Every research found out that the tactile input is like parallel computer input, 10 times faster than a serial input. Humans react similarily. If you have to collect data via intellectual input (visual on display) you finally get the same values, agreed, but 10 times slower. That's my point.
Nicely put and this is the biggest bone of contention between the two.Boeing pilots never used to call out FMA's;you dont need to.I see that a lot of companies have copied this Airbus philosophy and applied it to Boeing,totally unaware that what they're doing is pointless and unnecessary.Only abnormal FMA's need be called out in a Boeing.The tactile feedback tells you the story,the FMA's need only be silently confirmed.
Slasher's comments about the ECAM are worrying.Can some Airbus pilot elaborate a little further perhaps?