If you never have seen any other cockpit, how do you want to know what's best?
In fact, the Airbus cockpit still is state of the art, and I rather wish that some B-products would improve before any Airbus would. If you watch the A380 cockpit, you can safely assume that this is the way Mr. Airbus has gone.
I agree with F4F that there are some weak points, like the flight deck lighting or some of the FMGS's CDU logic. And I know that some people still don't get used to the FBW logic. Some of F4F's propositions are available today as an option. But the best of all about an Airbus cockpit is the space you have, the comfort.
As someone who has flown different kind of modern cockpits, I would like to see, all on the FMGS:
- copy into scratchpad
- prompts at the end of the line page to go directly to the next logical page.
- A useful PROG page
- scroll direction the other way around
And:
- Head-up Display
- A table for the Jump Seat!
Dani