As an instructor initially and long time flying multicrew aircrafts, fully visible yokes have always tell a lot of the story, and so in silence – In relation to the aircraft behavior,
timing amplitude duration and speed of displacement of the flight control command tell so much to a PNF.
Airbus thinks otherwise, therefore such direct information has gone, evaporated.
Just get used to it … Put everything on the aircraft behavior, whatever the reasons are, both internal and external.
As
Lyman put it, there is tremendous confusion on AF447 about the commands, attitudes, steps that should or not be applied.
Direct visual information from yokes would have relieved big part of the questioning.
Originally Posted by mm43
To give Capt Dubois some credit, I suspect that if he had seen the SS position floating up high on the overly blue PFDs on his return to the cockpit, in all probability he would have regained the LHS and done something about it.
That is all of an acknowledgement for someone who just wrote the ongoing Yoke v SS argument is IHHO not relevant to the loss of AF447.