Originally Posted by TTex600
I may be technically incorrect about the exact function of the FMGC, but that doesn't matter. My point is that the SS's are not connected to the controls, the SS's are connected only to computers; a point that you yourself concede.
It matters quite a lot. Not all computers are same or serve same purpose. It is very different ballgame when you are connected direct to flight computers as opposed to via FMGC. It is basic Airbus systems architecture. Every bus rated pilot must know that.
Originally Posted by TTex600
I do have a question for you. Why is it that old dogs like myself, reared on the likes of DC9s, (NWA crews for example) manage to maintain control of UAS A330s in the ITCZ while the only airframe lost was flown by Airbus only pilots?
Interim 2 lists 37 UAS events in 330/340 that ended completely uneventfully (pages 50-53 & 99-102). Nowhere is the experience of the crews involved listed so your statement is not based on BEA reports. Would you be so kind to provide your source(s)?