Originally Posted by
FullWings
I don’t know of any commercial aircraft with fully powered flying controls that doesn’t “fake” the control forces, FBW or not. Personally, I find all the controls a bit heavy, but that’s me.
100% true. That's also something that's often mistaken. In pitch most conventional ACs provide a varying (with speed and sometimes trim) artificial feedback. => Varying spring-force curve. In roll it's most of the times a fixed spring-damper artificial feel block.
As an example of a typical control architecture (the feel block is misssing):
Source: Hydraulically operated flight control system