[Yo-Yo]

The thing that always got me with the Airbus sidestick is that for the Pilot the stick in on the left, and for the 1st Officer it is on the right.

You move seats and now you have to re-learn your motor skills with the stick!

Those stick inputs are treated by the flight computer more as "requests" than "commands."

[Puckster]

One thing I will say about the A320 avionics design, it has redundancy up the yazoo.

But the airframe is built way to light. But, just like the A320, in order to make the promised, or not, performance spec's, the A380 will be built to get out the door, then the Airbus hemorrhaging will begin in earnest when they have to fund all the warranty issues.

On the A320, it was the tail-strike mod, the pintle mod, the cabin deck mod at the wing roots.....etc.

It's truly a design consortium that produces airplanes meant to be scraped after 15 years.