Hoi broertje!
Let me kick against another "holy house": knowing the airbusses (not first hand, but read a lot) they are equiped with a system/software which protects the flight-envelope (so to say). They refer to it as the three laws (normal, alternate and direct law). To the point, am under the impression that, although PSS did an absolutely marvelous job on their airbus series, somehow they did miss the boat a bit when it came to simulating the three laws.
Ever heard about because of the fly-by-wire system it is practically impossible to stall the actual aircraft (let alone make it drop from the sky)? Well, in FS2004 it aint that difficult at all. Have had lots of problems making dead-normal approaches where, while being still at Vref+15 or something like that, the plane would just suddenly loose its airspeed (and then even full-throttle doesnt do anything) plummet to the ground. Unfortunately did not have 36000 feet altitude to keep the plane flying...
Still, as said, the airbusses are awesome machines!
Perhaps it's a family thing!?
Stef
