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.
While it may add a slight bit of SA, I would add a couple things here.
First, in a situation like the AF guys were in the last thing I would do is look over and "see" what the guy is doing with his yoke (or control wheel
). I think most of us would be looking at the attitude indicator or other instruments rather than glancing over at a control wheel. If you really wanted to, in a bus you can see what the other guy is doing with the stick.
Second, if you did look over and see he had it full aft stick and thought, "hey this isn't right, you push full forward which cancels his input commanding a neutral elevator. While doing that push the override switch and in 30 seconds his stick is disabled and you now have all the control on your side. I actually think the bus stick is a much safer and better system than a yolk although it does kinda suck in gusty crosswinds going into LGA during a blizzard.