FWIW, the C-17 is a big airplane with no ejection seats and has control sticks. The C-17 control stick is a bit unconventional in that the stick pivots fore and aft below the floor for pitch control, but pivots left and right at the top of the stick/bottom of the grip for roll control. This allows large deflections of the control grip "above" the pilots' legs (versus between the legs) when the flight controls are in manual reversion mode.