What are the advantages of FBW? Personally I do not like it at all. It is bad enough on something dynamically stable as in an airplane but a helo? When I flew the 9 for the airlines I jump seated on a 320. After we got to flight level I asked the pilots what would happen if we lost all electrics? Captains response was the CP would open the door for the RAT then they would spend the rest of the fuel load trying to get a computer back on line since it would barely fly without a computer, would not land without one.
Jerry