jcjeant,
This one you probably can't find, as most who achieved it are probably keeping quiet, as in many instances the "save" will have been a response to a prior cock-up on their part
I think the bottom line in all this is that the original designers of the control architecture & responses in Airbii FBW were not really taking pilots wishes too seriously in their list of priorities.
Any of you who know the chequered history of Monsieur B Zeigler (& cringed at his Paris /Farnborough air show boasts about the maid being able to fly his new wunder-plane) will underatand better how the "aircraft knows best" control concept was evolved. How we laughed (not) after Habsheim/Bangalore/Mt St Odile at the inane previous "uncrashable" horlocks he had spouted.
If a situation, no matter how it was provoked (AF447/ Perpignan ? doesn't matter) could have been better assimilated & resolved by enhanced pilot perception of what was happening & what the other guy has done/is doing/ will do in the causal chain , it is difficult to argue against more feedback being a good thing (unless you are a Beanie /pilot basher , or both)
If an aircraft is being genuinely operated two crew, and you expect the "pilot monitoring " to actually monitor, I think you would be well advised to give him the tools to actually monitor what his cohort is up to, and possibly for both of them to rapidly understand what their Bus is doing, in a manner more obvious than currently only available by closely monitoring ( & rapidly assimilating whilst all goes pear shaped around you) ECAM messages & instruments.
Anyone who has flown through severe weather will realise the limitations of relying solely on this.
And don't get me started on how it will all be when these things get older & the wiggly-amps go on the blink even more often
If you lose control of your car on a slippery bend do you find it easier /more intuitive to manipulate the pedals/steering wheel to avoid the ditch, or would you find it easier to jump into the sat-nav & arm "skid correction" whilst hurtling ditchwards ? If your car was two-crew & you as DM (driver monitoring) had to decide whether to activate this or another system , would you not find it just a little helpful to see what the other guy was doing with the wheel ?
Humans are far better at intervention than analysis, we need to have the information /mechanism to do this. Nanny is right 99% of the time, but we cannot rely on her ,otherwise how do we grow up.
Our current generation of pilots are in regression in terms of basic piloting ability, we need to reverse this trend, it is time Airbus listened to what we ask for to achieve this.