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Old 30th Oct 2011, 15:24
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DozyWannabe
 
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That's your opinion and you're as welcome to it as anyone. Someone asked me why I brought up EAL401 a while back, and it was precisely for that reason - the initiating event that caused the deviation from assigned altitude was an inadvertant bump on the column (with a background loss of situational awareness due to the faulty nose gear bulb).

All my position has ever been is that the sidestick approach solves some of the shortcomings of the yoke design, but has shortcomings itself. No system is perfect.
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