Originally Posted by
Old Carthusian
No Conf iture
The fact that the PNF would ask a question shows that he was paying attention. I take it you have gotten your instrument rating? If so, you will recall that you are trained to trust your instruments not your unreliable estimate of what a slanted piece of metal may be doing or your sense of 'feel'. How someone perceives the same event can vary enormously especially under stressful conditions. Rely on the instrumentation (altimeter and artificial horizon) not on your eyes.
The visual contact with the PF's SS, the seeing of where the SS is at any given point of time, would have given to both PNF and Captain, the immediate, DIRECT, unaltered information of what the PF is doing.
Inferring the positions of the SS from instruments or anything else is INDIRECT information. When the instruments are not reliable it can be lethal.
The yoke would not have made a blind bit of difference in this case.
Of course it would, and not because it's a yoke. Ultimately, it's not about the "yoke" versus "SS", it's about the "SS" problem, which is its positioning in the A330, that can impact an exact, immediate, and precise visual perception of the actions on it.
As I've mentioned it in the past, and will do it again, that using INDIRECT versus DIRECT information, is an elementary system design issue that is known to create problems, where ever is present in any application where immediate and accurate perception of information is critical, one of which happens to be a passenger A/C cockpit.
Originally Posted by
DozyWannabe
@CONF - "Dozy didn't answer" because he was out at work, so he can continue to pay for the privilege of joining in these delightful discussions.
You're doing very well with your presence on this Forum. Ironically, the quality of the service brought to Airbus does not depend on how blindly one sticks to his mission.