Originally Posted by
bubbers44
Recovering a Cessna 152 from a students stall is easy with dual yokes. It would be more problematic with a side stick of Airbus design.
That's why training aircraft don't have non-interconnected sidesticks.
One would hope that by the time someone has ended up in the flight deck of an airliner that they would have the requisite training for controlling the aircraft at that level (in terms of ability and altitude!). Airbus certainly haven't condoned pilots being certified without that training, but it would appear Air France let it happen anyway. Why the desire to crucify Airbus, when Air France seem to be the problem here?
Airbus's ace-up-the-sleeve has always been the ease of type conversion between their narrowbody short-haul types and their widebody long-haul types - weight saving was simply an added bonus. The advantages of starting from a clean sheet in that manner seemed at the time to have provoked a severe case of sour grapes from the other side of the Atlantic, which at one point considered the monopoly of western airliner design it's god-given right. The early years of competition between the two were bitter, but it seems to have resolved into a more friendly rivalry these days - unfortunately some seem to not to want to let it go.