your first comment show that with a bit adrenalin in your hand the spring in the SS is not so strong as expected from the designers, and this can play surely a role for the beginn of AF447s zoom climb
Dozy's saying that it was even stronger than he'd expected...
the second one..... if this cancel button would exist also in a real A330, IŽd say they would have pressed it for the same reason.......
It does. And it would be clearly evident on the CVR, wouldn't it?