Originally Posted by bubbers44
Yes, I know the rudder deflections on FDR but as I said recently my friend had uncomanded out of control deflections and they were not touching the rudders in their A300.
My question would be – how did they know that the rudder was being deflected? Unless Airbus has changed the control philosophy to one of reversible controls – displacing the rudder surface will not affect the positioning of the rudder pedals in the cockpit. If the pedals in the cockpit were being deflected, again presuming Airbus has not gone to reversible controls on this airplane, must be due to some anomaly in the rudder “feel” system. Of course that isn’t good and should be noted and repaired. In the accident airplane both the rudder surface AND the rudder pedals were deflected – meaning that one of the cockpit occupants must have been “on” the rudder pedals and commanded the rudder surface position.