Best now would be to ask LH44 Captain what’s his view on Airbus sidestick philosophy ?
... did Hamburg change anything …?
To BFU credit, very nice to have published raw data. Whatever the language, the few FDR released say it all. Next step will be to have access to the flight animation.
I wish AAIB would be so informative …
I won’t mention BEA !
We could argue at length about the crosswind component, maybe it was slightly above, maybe just below, whatever, it was windy, it was cross side, it was gusty, but not that far off from the demonstrated values.
Can we blame the event on a gust ... or should we look at the inputs ?
At 50 feet AGL the copilot moved the side stick to the left and at the same time applied left rudder up to 28 degrees deflection within the next 5 seconds
… What do you expect from that ???
Clearly a lack of technique, nothing more.
BFU has to remind the basic stuff, probable brief or debrief for lesson #4 or #5 during private pilot training !
Lufthansa or other Majors seem happy to bring green green guys straight to the right seat of their airliners. For these guys it does represent a kind of real gift, but is it really ?
Cross wind handling only request time + practice, effective practice, when
under supervision you go and manipulate these flight controls, you control and over control, you test the reactions, you test the limits, or at least your own limits … but can you afford that from the right seat of your Company Airliner in the day to day operation ?
Some like to say watching a good demonstration teach a lot … probably, but did we learn swimming by watching
Mark Spitz ?