I have flown the A306 for almost twenty years and never had a handling problem with it. My employer has flown it since 1990 and we have never had the prolems or incidents that AA had with theirs.I have flown a number of Boeing types and Airbus FBW and I would say that the nicest one to handfly was the A306 with the B757 the worst. The only time I had a problem with rudder on the 306 was an incident where we had an iced up pitot . This affected ADC1 and the aircraft was putting in huge amounts of rudder as it tried to co-ordinate turns as it thought it was flying at 80kt or less when in fact we were at Mn0.78.
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