Originally Posted by
SLFinAZ
.....right down to the name....BUS. In effect it trivializes the pilots and equates them with being a bus driver.
I see this has already been answered, but I would like to suggest that you also read the story of the A300 and A310 (neither were FBW).
IIRC (it was a long time back), "airbus" in those early days was a generic term we used for widebody-shorthaul-twin designs in general, until "Airbus" snapped up the term and made it a trade mark.
To me the "autotrim" in response to stick input is another horrific idea from AB.
Sorry, but "autotrim" is not an AB idea. It's much older than that. Concorde had an auotrim system, and apart from having to do some clever tweaking during flight testing, it never really was a problem. But then the Concorde pitch trim had the "bicycle bell", so you
knew when it was doing its job.