Originally Posted by Clandestino
By grabbing the controls with little or no warning you risk startling your colleague, which is in fact incredibly dangerous and you could end up "fighting" each other.
"I HAVE CONTROL" - no more - no less - no anbiguity
Forget your
'incredibly dangerous'
One of the advantages to the sidestick system is that by holding the priority button you can "lock out" the other stick if you need to.
Only partially true - If a fight there is, both fighters could endlessly retake control.
@CONF - Or you could have had a split elevator condition (as in EgyptAir990) and a nasty crash.
If there was a 'split elevator + nasty crash' every time a change of control is done on short final we should know it by now ...