On Aug 8, 11:12*am, John Smith wrote:
a wrote:
One wonders if in fly by wire airplanes pilots might assume the
software will *protect the mechanical parts.

One would hope that those pilots did receive proper training.

Somewhere in the body of the cited article it's mentioned pilots
received training or the like warning them of the danger. In the real
world, however, if a circumstance occurs, like wake turbulence, and a
pilot thinks full rudder deflection is needed that foot is going to
push hard on the rudder. If control pressures didn't supply enough
feedback for me to know I was approaching some limit I would say
there's a design flaw. If the NTSB conclusion is supported the Airbus
folks have a problem that a computer fix, as opposed to training, is
going to have to solve.