Originally posted by LH-B744
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Evan feels that the pilot, in response to poor training and screening, deliberately slammed the rudder back and forth, repeatedly, because he specifically wanted to be a cowboy, improvising pilot and wanted to use rudder BECAUSE it goes against the Airbus A300B4-605R FCOMPOHQRH.
3BS feels that the pilot felt some wake turbulence and made some modest, appropriate rudder inputs (Maybe 1.25" and 10 lbs...not_unlike the landing fake cub in this video). He used the rudder because that's a kinda fundamental control to manage yaw in lots of airplanes in lots of circumstances. Unfortunately, his modest light inputs were grossly amplified to the full, available rudder deflection by a poorly designed airplane, resulting in an unfortunate, systematic oscillation which broke the cheap-ass composite tail off of the airplane.
The truth may be in the middle, but I don't feel the same need as Evan to make the pilot out as an idiot.
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