Hello BOAC,
Re. the BEA Report on the AF A340 Serious Incident of 2011, should your time values be in seconds, rather than minutes?
Aso, you write:
Either the world has gone mad or the report has been corrupted in translation. Look what they 'missed'
You then go on to quote what the BEA has written on Page 14. Are you merely remarking that the crew may have gone mad, or perhaps you can explain what has been "corrupted in the translation"? At a superficial glance, their script seems to be in line with the DFDR traces in the Appendix.
Re PF vs PNF, I am inferring that the PF is the pilot (in this case, the captain) who was nominated as such at the beginning of the flight. it's always been a potential source of confusion (particularly in an airline like BEA/BA, which switches PFs for the "monitored approach"). Airbus itself used to add the terms CM1 and CM2 to avoid the ambiguity. In this case, the copilot seems to have remained the PNF (i.e., as far as we know there was no formal handover of control), but made sidestick inputs - whether intentionally or not.