While the A-320 does more for the pilot than the B-737, don't interpret that
to mean that the pilot isn't allowed to fly it. Airbus philosophy isn't to
exclude the pilot but to keep the lowest common denominator of pilot in the
loop. Click-click, click-click, and I have all the control I need just as in
other jets I have flown. Punch 3 more buttons and I can do aerobatics. We
have options.

D.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
Airbus seems to favor the notion that engineers should fly the plane with
the
pilot acting only as an attendant, whereas Boeing seems to believe that
pilots
should fly the plane with the engineers as attendants. So is it
preferable to
fly a plane that absolutely refuses to do what the engineers have
forbidden,
at the price of memorizing all the AI that they've built into the aircraft
and
having no option if one needs to fly outside the envelope in an emergency,
or
is it better to fly a plane that will do whatever it is told in a more
predictable way, at the price of risking serious consequences if one tells
the
plane to do something outside of its envelope?