Originally Posted by DiCaprio
Yeah, I'm but a punter, but one with a lot of time paying your salaries, and enough wits about me to comprehend much of this. So ne flamez-vous pas, svp.
Airbus A/P doesn't have attitude hold mode and it does not command thrust.
There is the aural warning when both sticks are out of neutral at the same time. Recorded at 2:13:03.
Consider yourself flamed.
Originally Posted by Island-flyer
utter lack of CRM
CRM is useless when pilots lack resources of their own to manage.
Originally Posted by Island-flyer
calls into question Air France's pilot training
Air France pilots have previously successfully negotiated loss of all airspeed in A330s.
Originally Posted by Island-flyer
This was exacerbated by the fact that the control sticks on the Airbus move independently (a feature I always believed created more problems).
As long as anyone claiming independent sticks on Bus are problem does not support the claim with some verifiable research, I'll consider such utterances unreliable & irrelevant.