[lutorm]

I mean, what choice, besides averaging, would make sense? Completely disregarding one pilots input seems worse, and averaging is what happens in a mechanically connected system. The crucial difference is that in that case the pilots can feel that this is happening. I don't know what sort of force feedback the Airbus sidesticks provide, but this lack of feedback seems to me to be the real root of the problem, not the averaging itself.

[advisedwang]

Disregarding one pilot input seems better: one pilot can correctly fly the plane while the other does nothing vs two pilots getting confused and flying planes into the ground. Even better would be a system that somehow follows the "I have the stick" procedure, although I don't know if that is possible.

You are right though that either way force feedback make sense. You could even just do a buzzing if there's dual inputs, like when you take your hand off a lane-controlled vehicle.

[fragmede]

Say one of the pilots is suicidal, or had a heart attack and is unconsciously while holding the stick in the wrong direction, how does the airplane know which input to ignore?

[wkat4242]

> I don't know what sort of force feedback the Airbus sidesticks provide,

None.