Originally Posted by TTex600
Maybe your sim instructor know tricks mine does not, but an Airbus MIA A320 Simulator with only one ELAC/SEC/FAC on handles like a truck with malfunctioning power steering and broken dampers.
The only way my instructor could force Dir Law left us with no roll control spoilers, slow ailerons, and resulted in an extremely unresponsive airplane.
I can’t tell for the 320, but for the 330, according to the flight control architecture, PRIM 1 or 2 maintain one pair of ailerons + 1 pair of spoilers for roll control + both elevators.
I have no memory of sluggish control, but would have probably to experiment it again.
Direct Law, in the manner some desire, would offer full control of all control surfaces, as its name implies, directly.
That would be a great thing, one simple guarded switch to force direct law. But I don’t see that in the Airbus philosophy where the airplane is supposed to take care of the pilot, not the pilot to dare doubting the technology …