Don, I'm waiting for the first "auto TCAS" being flown in SIN or HKG from a ships transponder in the near vicinity, or maybe a new Boeing convert in manual flight performing a GA and wondering why the thing is spearing towards the tarmac
Back to the subject, does anyone know if this newer 777 will have better seats up front? or perhaps an intergrated EFB? rather than the dogs breakfast we currently have.
Mention has been made here about the non feed back of Airbus side sticks, whilst true that there is no direct tactile feed back, there is a loud audio and visual cue in front of the pilots eyes on the Glare shield. A loud Audio Alert DUAL INPUT Sounds and a PRIORITY LEFT/RIGHT Audio and Visual RED Arrow cues available. Clearly and tragically this was not interpreted by the operating pilots on the Air France case.
Similarly the Tactile moving AutoThrust Cues were not detected by the Turkish air Crash when their throttles moved into a flare mode and stayed there til it was too late to recover
Dual input isn't the issue, tactile feedback is, its how our brains work and interpret information (remember how you learned to ride a bike/learnt to drive/fly?). The turkish incident merely highlights poor airmanship and technique, a known fault,close to the ground=time for extra vigilance.
For ANY thrust reduction/addition your hands should be on the thrust levers..period, it would have I believe saved the day in SFO as well.