Originally Posted by
GolfKilo73
I'd love to fly an airplane that effectively takes the pilot out of the equation.
We had a very low level windshear incident in Juneau a little over a year ago that would have resulted in a crash had we been airbus drivers rather than Boeing pilots. The Boeing allows the pilot full flight control authority from FL to touchdown.
There is no substitute for a Boeing.
What does a boeing do beyond allowing the pilot to have full power and shove the stick full back and ride the shaker all the way out? That's what the airbus does. I'm not going to stall my way out of a w/s encounter.....
A w/s encounter and that 'bus doing 1500 trees per minute in France back in the 80s are two totally separate issues. If you shove the power levers forward and pull back on the stick, the airbus gives you full power and a climb, every time.