Originally Posted by
bohicagain
I know I am going to get crapped on for this but had Airbus had a normal yolk the Pilot in the left seat would have seen the FO pull back and hold the yolk so when he took the controls he would have seen the other guy contradict his inputs and said something. That might have brought the nose down to get airflow over the wings but by both pilot operating the controls in opposite directions the airplane had no real direction in which to go.
The Airbus doesn't have eggs in the cockpit.
The article brought up an interesting point that the left seat relief pilot was a management guy who flew once every couple months. That's not exactly a whole lot of currency. As for the control differences between B vs A, BirgenAir was a 757 with the CA side pitot tube blockage in which the CA rode the stick shaker all the way to the Ocean. The FO had a yoke and it didn't make a difference in that case.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
A critical difference is that we hire experienced pilots.
How do you define "experienced"?