Originally Posted by
gums
My point is that you can have a great FBW design that can provide "conventional" feel regardless of the aerodynamic stability, or lack thereof, of the platform.
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I may be mistaken, but the crew of AF447 learned to fly with basic planes that did not have tons of electronic augmentation or "protections". Kinda like most of us here, ya think?
But "conventional" feel is only a
de facto snapshot in time - it doesn't automatically follow that what's considered conventional now will be conventional in a few decades.
The idea that the airliner flight deck layout that grew out of the postwar years is somehow a natural piloting nirvana is rather limiting in scope, and not supported by the evidence at hand.