Originally Posted by
nitpicker330
Back driven Yokes working opposite each other???? Ahhhhhh..........Mmmmmm. I guess a Meteor could strike Seattle too.
How so? They've wired up the sidesticks backwards before, and I maintain that the fact that the sidesticks aren't backdriven was one of the reasons it was possible to save the aircraft. Now, I'm sure that both Airbus (after that incident) and Boeing have done more than due diligence to prevent it from happening yet, but Murphy's Law has a habit of getting around the wiliest designers.
Greybeard's right (though I suspect he meant "tactile" rather than "visual"), but again, that's a single aspect of difference in philosophy - it doesn't make one philosophy as a whole empirically "better" or "safer" than the other. I say again, moving throttles didn't help the Turkish pilots at Schiphol.