You have obviously also missed a notorious serious incident report.
Cross is certainly not to be used by the PF for rotation.
I think I remember the incident, sometime ago during takeoff?
To cut a long story short, if I have the same story - the resultant factor was that the PF was not using the cross as a
stick indication, which I am sticking to, but, that he used it as an aircraft pitch ATT indication, if I am right.
Also, rather unnervingly - an instructor once told me in a sim session, that if I place the cross on the pitch angle I want, on the . . artificial horizon (pitch bar) then the aircraft would pitch to that . . pitch attitude or alpha.
For example, he meant, if I placed the cross on the 10 degree pitch bar then I would pitch up to 10 degrees nose up.
I have a tiny inkling that this is complete and utter
.
But please correct me if I am wrong.