Originally Posted by
prhs1989
You are preaching to the choir. I flew back on Monday morning on Continental Express, and the pilot was having a hard time keeping the wings straight during landing. We must have been only 500 feet above the ground, and the wings were still rocking like crazy. Whoever my pilot was earned his/her money that day when they put the plane right on the centerline. This past weekend was not the weekend to be flying.
Believe me when I tell you thats its even more challenging in an Airbus. We use a sidestick and the aircraft is all fly by wire. There is no true feel for the aircraft, not like that in conventional yoke operated aircraft. The automation is excellent but hand flying is very artifical and extremely challenging in gusty crosswinds. Seriously, to operate the airbus confidently you must understand the LAWS that control the flight controls and this in itself is all theory and rather complex.