Thanks Scotty,

Yes – I think you have misunderstood me.

I flew the 320 from launch to my retirement a couple of years ago.

I LOVE technology.

But new technology chucked at pilots as it was at launch of the 320 left most in no doubt there was inherent protections which simply went misunderstood.

Why?

Because the engineering background schools were made as brief as possible and pilots were not given lots of information because they were told –“you don’t need to know”.

The Airbus manuals were the worst I had ever seen. In fact, a former colleague of mine told me Airbus ran a school on “how to read and amend the manuals”.

The pilots who dumped the first one and gave the pine trees a crew cut didn’t understand the technology, and I maintain it is a little crass just say “pilot error”. Sure it was, but what led to it is the real question.

As for ATC and its problems with the 320, get used to it, and make your decisions on avoidance earlier, and don’t move to Asia. No one there hand flies the Airbus. AP on at gear up, and disconnect 100’ above minimum – visibility 10,000 miles!

Now – so Marv doesn’t go crook a me again, that’s it from me.

Regards

Dom