titaniumwings
If you are new to the Bus then FCOM and FCTM should be your bible. If you didn't understand something from that you can ask some one to explain in PPRUNE. Do not learn flying here. Lot of things some incorrect and some downright dangerous are suggested in these columns. The most dangerous thing to do is start making your own procedures in Airbus FBW. Airbus is flown only one way and that is airbus way. There is no place for experimentation listening to some one no matter how experienced he is. Do not compare it with previous aircraft. One very senior airbus industry instructor told me if you have taken a new girl friend do not compare her with your old one the result will not be pleasant. Also I can feel you are reading procedures as if they are horror stories. In air if you misjudged something there is limit only within which you can recover. If everything was recoverable there would be no accidents. You don't side slip big aircraft and first try to fully understand laws in normal flying and not aerobatics.