Originally Posted by
CONF iture
Bernard Ziegler will be glad to see you did finally promote him from
sales department to
Engineering Director, not after initially pretending he was not even an
engineer at that time.
The role he played in the actual specification and design was minimal, as you well know. He signed off on things, maybe did some arbitration - but that's about it.
Like it or not, Bernard Ziegler is still the father of the 320, and don’t take it too personal if he said stuff you disapprove.
That's denigrating Captain Corps' role more than a little, and the only reason more don't know about him was because of his untimely death in 1992.
BZ is the "father of the A320" in the same way Bill Gates is the "father of Windows" - it may have been his name on the press releases but the work itself was delegated.
Like certain other posters, you're fighting 24-year-old battles, which frankly makes you look a little ridiculous. This is about AF447, not AF296 - and there is no evidence - none - that complexity, whether perceived or real played any part.
The Airbus FBW design is here to stay - why can't you get over it?
[NB. If the protections were gone, your hero Asseline would not have been alive to lie about the aircraft in the first place. ]