Originally Posted by Zorin_75
Machinbird,
without getting into the realism of your ideas - during their whole descent, they never even got to down elevator, so nothing weird is needed for the ths not to move...
Yes, the elevator never made it past neutral, but that mayonaise stirring stick did for a large number of instances. So did the LH seat stick.
You couldn't do that kind of useless rapid motion with the old irreversible hydraulic driven- cable controlled flight controls of yesteryear. The actuators generally had to move to follow up the input command. Until the cylinder followed up, you only had the limited motion.of the control valve travel available.
With a stick flailing around like that, you would have to mentally integrate your motion relative to the center detent to properly evaluate what the net effect of your control motions was. Are we sure that FBW is the better control system??
