Just as a aside it is Airbus on who elected to keep the visible trim wheel on their FBW aircraft
... it could be they changed their mind as well ...
Trim wheel ?
Now, how much longer for rudder pedals to be linked ... !?
757 / 767 had already lost trim wheels, but at least they kept the MAIN flight controls items.
Fixed thrust levers is not a big issue, as thrust reading is very clear to both pilots.
It just makes thrust disconnection less conventional and one has to think before proceeding.
How many here tend to favour the aircraft they first flew in their sidestick/control column views?
No emotion here, but technical characteristics.
Actually I do appreciate bus flightdeck for MANY reasons, but I realize how much,
sometimes, I would even more appreciate to still benefit from the things I did mention earlier in this thread.
Airbus took a radical option with sidesticks.
I believe they did not consult properly.
They did not evaluate properly.
Pilots were not central parameters in the equation.
AI was already betting on a single pilot operation,
just waiting for the day they simply would do without.
... but automatism did not deliver as expected ... ?
20 years later still no airliner manufacturer to follow the Airbus sidestick philosophy !?