From the git, AB has been marketing complexity as dependability, and "Ease of Operation" as simplicity.
Both are utter lies, and errant horse----. Training needs to start at the Line, and I don't mean the AIR Line. The Production LINE.
To require pampered pilots to inherit a wild thang in the worst of circumstances, without some history of mitigation/preparation, is manslaughter, imo.
My opinion, and we'll see what France thinks.
Wolf, I appreciate your experience, but flying the line is not Blue Water.
Nor should it be. These babies are not Ace Sixkiller, nor should they be.
They are Lambs for slaughter, 447 case in point.