Yes Onceapliot, so many questions, none of which will be answered here, so they must be rhetorical.
I think many of your fears will be allayed by how the aircraft is operated. Just have a think how the F16, with all those same problems inherent in it's design, has been operated all those years.
BTW the lone pilot in the circumstance under discussion in this thread had full authority over the flying controls, they worked properly, he just didn't realise it. An operating technique if there is a problem with either sidestick or thrust lever is to use the automatics (autopilot or autothrust.) Of course this wouldn't have worked in this instance for the sidestick principally because there was no fault with the sidestick.
Last edited by beardy; 24th Mar 2014 at 10:43.