Possum.
I don't know if were talking the exact same subject.
Look at your quote precisely. It mentions information beeing put in via eye and ear sensors only. I agree with that processing. However i truly believe that the sensing through hands and the lower end of the spine gets to our brain on a seperate channel, therefore increases the feedback possibiliy.
If your point of view was absolute, then we could give Lewis Hamilton a steering wheel with no street and wheelforce-feedback and simply by watching his instruments and the track he should set the same laptimes. I wonder how he would feel about that .....
I did my share of instructing and felt it easier to evaluate and help a candidate with a moving yoke. Someone mentioned above that instruction was not high on the agenda with the AB philosophy. Lets face it, a huge chunk of our daily ops consists of instructing. As i recall the Israelis changed the design of their Lavi, initially based on the F16 FBW SS, to a moving stick precisely because they said that 30% of its operation was instruction.
Again, the AB system is just as safe as others. A control system that gives you tactile/motion feedback gives you a additional means of feedback and control, beeing as safe as the other.
Why deprive us of such a feature?
GMDS