TyroPicard;
Yes, the stick is designed to fit the hand. That said, the hand doesn't necessarily stay in one position for all regimes. At any one time the hand can slide down the stick to "dampen" inputs for example in turbulence on approach, and move further up for slightly more authority when needed - there's no hard/fast rule, nor should there be.
Also, I disagree with your comment on the hand position & transmit button statement "as a rule", but yes, that certainly works when required as in the Hudson River case. Normally, the PNF is doing the radio work and cockpit discipline would mandate that only one pilot do the communications work unless the captain deems that circumstances require otherwise, of course.
The point of the original comment is, there is a tendency to "stir the pot" with large stick movements, particularly in turbulence, even to the point where the stops are reached. That's not the way to fly fbw aircraft as the computers and control surfaces are already doing their best to maintain the last position requested by the stick. Airbus recommends small corrections, not large ones.
Last edited by PJ2; 8th February 2009 at 00:06.