Originally Posted by
III Corps
As you know having flown the 'bus, the inputs from the side stick commands a roll rate and as long as the aileron is held in that position, it will continue to command a roll. With a 'normal' airplane you are holding a certain control surface deflection, not commanding a roll rate.
My point exactly. You feed in rudder in the flare to kick out the crab but not aileron. The 'bus should remain wings level.
Again, excellent summary. It IS just another airplane with some added feature. And turning off all the magic and flying a 'bare' airplane surprises many who have not been in the cockpit. Throttles CAN move, etc.
Others bristle at the envelope but it is not a fighter (which also have envelopes) and within the envelope you have essentially care-free handling. And if one need to feel like a fighter pilot in an airliner you can buy a pair of baggy pants and wear a g-suit under the baggy pants. No one will know until you yell, 'Bandit at 2 oclock!!'.. no, wait.. that's the 3-15 from Newark. Never mind.'
Someone said that remove all the magic and you have a Boeing. I wouldn't say that because I don't want to start a food fight.
The 320 actually shares some characteristics with a FBW F-16 but of course we are talking apples and oranges.
You said it better than I did. It is commanding a roll rate with the side stick controller that mess up so many in a stiff crosswind condition. They forget to set/adjust the appropriate amount of bank to counteract drift then center the stick. The pilot wants to maintain the stick deflection out of prior learned habits when in a stiff crosswind but of course not the case in the Bus.
I don't have a link but remember a YouTube video showing a 320 aborting a landing in stiff crosswind conditions. You could see the pilot was fighting the aircrafts flight characteristics trying to fly it like a traditional non FBW aircraft.
Personally, I liked to land the Bus with some crosswind so you could roll on the low tire and only get half spoiler initially for a nice greased landing.
Frats,
Lee