Originally Posted by
CONF iture
What to expect when a Manufacturer puts on the market a product that's supposed to correct the pilot's errors to the point that its designer publicly announces that even his housekeeper could fly it ... ?
Here we go again. Once more with feeling, and hopefully for the last time.
- Bernard Ziegler was not the "designer" of the A320, though as Engineering Director at the time he did have final sign off
- The flight characteristics and systems functionality were tested and signed off by Gordon Corps, the archetypal "pilot's pilot" and successor to D.P. Davies at the ARB
- "Correct[ing] the pilot's errors" is only one aspect of Normal Law, another important one being that a pilot can safely fly close to the design limits of the aircraft
- As daft as the statement looks in hindsight, Ziegler didn't say anything about his concierge being able to land the aircraft or handle it in a degraded state
- If the people still holding on to this nonsense as some kind of affront to the piloting fraternity would let it go (after all it did happen 24 years ago), then discourse would be a lot easier