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Airbus : If you think you have some doubt about the data you receive, just keep things simple, degrade all the way straight to Direct Law. Make things easier for your crew. Airplanes fly well in Direct Law too ... including yours.
Not if the pilot doesn't trim - see Perpignan. Doesn't work too well on other planes either - Bournemouth, Schipol...
Common factor - suprise auto dropout. Let's hit the pilot with stall warning and
at the same time disconnect the biggest pitch control surface from the stick, so the pilot needs two controls for pitch where a moment ago it was just one...
Is that
really the best user interface ?