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Yep, the guy was just doing what he was trained to do. The only way he would have any idea that the rudder is stressed for one input and not one then back deflected the opposite way would be if he had background in flight test or aircraft certification. Of course the info is out there and available to the public. Who would have thought that certification would only account for stresses induced under a one time yaw doublet, not a reverse input. Boeing and the airlines (most companies)came out right after this and let the pilots know in a memo the certification and flight test profile for transport catagory aircraft. We still dont train for it in the sim. The FAA and the airlines pretty much bank on the rare occurence that it might never happen again. Remember, safety costs. It is expensive to train pilots on anything that is not verbatim required by the FAA. Anything out of the ordinary and not canned is RARELY trained due to limited simulator availability and once again money. Also when you train a guy for something out of the ordinary there is the chance he will fuck it up. If this happens then you have to RE-TRAIN him and put it on his record of a failure. The airline training is so expected and canned that you know and are expecting EVERY Emergency or NON-Normal. I really could go on all night but I'm just back from a Honolulu turn and my employer just filed for bankruptcy. I'm done!
BTW to the dude that posted above about the AC or the Captain making every takeoff and landing. You couldn't be more wrong. Thats another topic altogether.
Goodnight!
Will Whiteside