Originally Posted by Phillip2412
i think,the issue s/s or yoke is maybe a pschyological thing.
the yoke is something you can hold on,you can grab it with BOTH hands when in turbolence,it gives confidence b/c you are acting with your whole upper body.
you have a better feeling or the a/c b/c the motion of the yoke,the a/c and your upper body is in line.
ask yourself,who wants to drive his car with a s/s ?
I, for one, don't have a problem with a SS. In fact, I love the SS. But I HATE not having tactile feel of the airplane.
The Airbus forces a pilot to interact with it entirely with his eyes and ears, but that's not really the SS's fault.
Which gets me around to the topic at hand. How a qualified crew managed to totally misread/misdiagnose their situation to the point of letting it kill them and theiri passengers. I think the "eyes only" interface has something to do with it. They were first faced with conflicting visual information, and then with conflicting aural information. This may end up being nothing more than an extremely unfortunate alignment of the "holes in the cheese". The list of factors will be long.