BEARDY : Do cease trying to be a misplaced journalist and stick to thread. Opinion, rumour, fact, all part of this excellent forum and we are all fully entitled to express as we wish. Oh and Landflap needs no lessons. I agree with him that the Airbus is NOT like any other aeroplane. I too went from Boeing to Airbus and after a long night, offered a runway change at LHR . I accepted Right rather than Left, quite late, click, click, pointed the big bus where I wanted it to go with my sidestick & left thrust to do it's own thing. That, sir, is NOT like any other aeroplane & I went to the pub thinking, ' what a easy piece of kit this is'. Indeed, another mate of mine referred to the aircraft as "a gentleman's perambulator". Darn right.