LRC please contact Boeing and tell them about sidesticks. On the airframe that lift my namesakes into the air Boeing have spent so long making it fly like a "real" airoplane that there might as well be cables running back to the PCU's. Looking up under the floor looks no different to its predicessors with cables, pulleys, bellcranks etc. When I heard I was to play with a FBW a/c I nearly retired my turnbarrel tools. . .Boeings answer was that pilots weren't ready for the controls not feeding back surface movement. The weight saved would mean with a full a/c the skipper could carry his wallet without inducing a nose down pitch. MEEEOOOOWW