I had fun making this, just remember that Airbus pilots don’t eat dinner off our laps, and ‘Flying A Boeing, For Dummies’ is a repetitive title.
Airbus Stick Technique
I normally write about ideas that apply to flying any aircraft. But today is different. This is Airbus specific. Very specific! Recently read a couple of peer-reviewed scientific research papers that do a great job parsing Airbus stick skills and fine-grain aircraft control. I’ve learnt some new things, confirmed some suspicions, but still have questions. The four topics are: Where to hold the side stick? Separate up/down and left/right inputs, or move the stick in 2-D? Aim for perfectly centered or smoothly tracking? What else did the researchers learn? The main research paper is Stirring the Pot: Comparing Stick Input … Continue reading Airbus Stick Technique