> Airbus may eventually have that problem with the A320 family. I really don't know. But they don't have it yet. Airbus is already fly-by-wire on the A320, and

> Airbus may eventually have that problem with the A320 family. I really don't know. But they don't have it yet. Airbus is already fly-by-wire on the A320, and they know how to do it not too stupidly. They can provide the same control laws and feedbacks to new models without introducing ugly hacks on top of mechanical commands. That helps. I believe other Airbus families already use controls that are very similar to the ones used in the A320, and even if that's not of the same type rating that probably also ease training a lot. The 737 will eventually have to go; even the somehow modernized versions are a quite outdated way to make big commercial airplanes nowadays. (And the whole idea of grandfathering regulation is utterly stupid, btw.)