Having a control column in his face, that Pilot Monitoring would have had a much better chance to monitor that the PF was just not pulling adequately on the damn controls to get that bird airborne.
I think with a feedback some cross-wirings might have been detected before it was too late, or the JNB co would have felt the old man releasing the stick when he should have pulled.
Wow... and here's me checking rotation rate and pitch by glancing at PFD. Thank you for pointing out the inapropriateness of the procedure I'm applying. I'd love to check proper rotation pull by visually checking the rearward movement of the yoke but alas, yoke is gone and there's only that dreaded sidestick.
Absolutely horrible. With such a lousily designed flight controls, I'm afraid that FBW Airbi have much greater incidence of busted nosewheels/collapsed maingear than Boeings. Also I'm pretty certain that our master of statistics, CONFiture, can gleefuly provide us with some table confirming my fears. We should really write to mr Airboos and demand some stick feedback immediatelly. But first we have to agree on what should mr A use as feedback input. You know, in normal law stick commands roll rate and g, and not control positions. To have your stick shaking like mad while elevators and ailerons are working their hearts out trying to give you smooth ride through the chop would be a bit disconcerting, wouldn't it.