Having been introduced by airbus into commercial aviation, the sidestick appears to be their favorite control column for fly-by-wire-aircraft. And why use a large yoke if a modern sidestick does as fine anyways. Boeing using fly-by-wire on its 777s uses a mixture because they have fly-by-wire but a traditional yoke, which to me appears to be a matter of cockpit-commonality but also philosophy since boeing says yokes are better for controling the aircraft, which airbus completely denies. By the way, having space for newspaper or food in the cockpit is not the worst, as wysiwyg pointed out.

I am an airbus fan, as I spent 3 weeks in the Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant and got to see a lot of the technical stuff, as you probably noticed. Nevertheless, boeing aircraft are fine to me too.

wysiwyg: are you a FO/Captain with TCX? If yes, how did you get that job and, once again, how about the finances?

brgs
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