Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
If that wasn't your intended meaning, then perhaps what you meant to say didn't come across.
True. Point I tried to make gently but unsuccessfully: intended public of manuals is pilots who fly or will fly Airbi and they do understand their FCS enough for everyday use and abnormals. Participants in anonymous fora and bloggers who complain about it have to demonstrate they don't, in order to make their unrealistic ideas look plausible. That's all there really is to it.
Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
if your assertion behind that line is that one or two of the three in that AF crew were unworthy of certification and unable learn this oh so complicate thing, but became regular crew at AF, that is another matter. Is that your position?
No. This is very crude (and unsurprising) falsification of my position.
AF crew was qualified and experienced on 330, thence they must have known something about their flight controls and apply it in practice to be let to play with their aeroplanes and then survive flying them. Issue is that at the crucial moment they forgot everything they learned not just about A330 but about basic aerodynamics and performance also and that's what killed them. BEA's report does not hide modern psychology's helplessness when faced with task to explain a pilot who suddenly tries to unreasonably go against the fundamental laws that keep him aloft, with inevitably tragic outcome.