Originally Posted by PJ2
What "de-confuses" the airplane is flying it like any other airplane. I don't think I was unusual in the way I thought about the A320/A330/A340...I was never "aware" that there were "protections"...it was flown like a DC8, or a Lockheed or a B767 - just never took anything for granted.
Like most of us, you never had to apply the relevant memory items in real life, but for the simulated life you have been asked to get the maximum and just rely on the protections. Anything else and you didn't follow the Published Emergency Procedure ...