Originally Posted by CONF iture
Sidestick is a sure way to waste valuable information in a multi crew operation.
Can anyone provide any verifiable source for this statement? If we were to believe it then right now thousands of FBW Airbi currently airborne are operating with considerable wastage of valuable information in a multi crew operation.
Originally Posted by Old Cartusian
The yoke would not have made a blind bit of difference in this case.
Probably wouldn't make a lot off difference in the accident sequence but it would make a whole lot in analysis phase: with independent sidesticks, there is no doubt who made which controls input.