Hi Dozywannabe,
But "tactile feedback" has been artificially driven in every major airliner designed since the late '60s,....
Correct. When manually flying I could "feel" the aircraft getting slow because the elevator would feel heavy in order to maintain altitude (until
I manually trimmed the elevator). No so with AB FBW.
Also, the FBW computers coped just fine with the loss of airspeed information. The A/P and A/THR kicked out,....
I wouldn't call that "coped" - I'd call that given up!
Even my old Boeing 707 A/P would have remained engaged, all that would have been required would have been manual thrust adjustment.