Strongresolv,
are you an armchair pilot with a Boeing fetish? Given your first sentence about Airbus=French I suspect you have no idea of how the fine engineers of Airbus actually work and frankly your comments overall are, well, another poster put it quite well already...b......
I'm training to move from E145 to A32x and so far have enjoyed every moment of learning the differences and similarities between these two aircraft. That is assuming you consider Brazil's finest to be aircraft of course...
...as for Airbus being difficult to fly in xwind situations ... yes, but then again so is my E145 and some of the Ryanair and KLM landings I've had over the past week so is the 737-800.
Anyway, my instructor said quite simple,"if it looks like an aircraft it flies like an aircraft so damn well fly it like an aircraft!"
Seems to work for me...