AB/B
When a pilot types, he is assumed to know the a/c. Is AB different? Yep. In approved and certificated ways? Yep, no room to argue. One knows his machine, or he does not. If anyone is confused due prior Boeing time, or vice versa, get a different job. It is ironic that the focus of some criticism is the system that has made the BUS so safe. Who would think to make ALTERNATE LAW a focus, especially re: high altitude upset? As I said before, my neighbor flew the 320 for years, for a Legacy carrier. In his thousands of hours he was out of NORMAL LAW not once. Fair?
The reason there is yet such passion re: 447 is because of the sheer number of shortcomings, poor decisions, bad design, etc. that killed these folks. We get complacent, and complacency leads to more complacency, then we forget.......
add. The lady in the RHS in COLGAN didn't push the yoke forward, and she had more time than her Captain. Don't be so sure "I would have intervened..."
then it happens...... I for one believe the attention is justified, and we let this go at great peril to all of us who fly....