Originally Posted by studi
Airbus is a very sophisticated FBW concept, and as a pilot, you just fly your Airbus as any other plane and you are fine. If you start to hit the edge of the envelope, it will even save your ass in 99.9% of the times. In certain extreme and rare situations, it even helps you to maximise performance. If you are in degraded mode, and you hit the edge of the envelope, ofcourse it will not help you, as any other plane will not either.
" you just fly your airbus as any other plane and you are fine".
It flies like any other plane only in that left/right, up/down SS movements generally translate to left/right bank and nose up/down pitching motions.
It is not
flown like "any other plane"
Does "any other plane" have a no feel, no feedback SS?
Does "any other plane" allow left SS to fight with right SS and then allow the subsequent warning to be drowned in a cacaphony of sensory overload?
Does "any other plane" remove it's pilot from awareness of its trimmed condition?
Does "any other plane" trim for gee or flight path vs speed?
Does "any other plane" remove power awareness from its pilot with its non moving power levers?
Is any other plane" flown differently depending upon its flight control computer abilities? When I say "flown" I speak of the physical, tactile motor skills required to control an aeroplane.
How many other planes deny their pilots the ability to slip into a crosswind on landing?
I'm on record as stating that any pilot who states that FBW Airbii are flown like "any other plane" simply doesn't know how other planes are flown, and I'll stick by that statement.
I fly it, and now that I understand it's idiosyncrasies, I feel safe amd comfortable in it. But that doesn't mean that it flies like "any other plane"