jafa
FBW pilots should spend four hours a year minimum in aerobatic gliders. It wouldn't do the rest any harm either.
Terrific point, IMO, jafa. Anyone who thinks that 'power comes first' should try a bit of flying with no engine!
Mind you, we're very lucky here in Australia - there are so many thermals around, most of the year, that in my gliding days we quite often had to use the spoiler to get the darn thing to go down at ALL......
But, flying sailplanes, you very quickly realised that 'pitch' really WAS your primary source of 'power.' Flying nose-up for any length of time in a glider meant, quite simply and quite soon, loss of airspeed and an inevitable stall.