Originally Posted by
roulishollandais
There is something wrong in the absence of feeling restitution by the feedback of some FBW flight laws. It was already stigmatized by gums' experience in flight.
That's a matter of conjecture and debate.
Those who favour the "traditionalist" line that all aircraft should be flown in the manner of a Cessna will probably agree, but others - of which there are a growing number - do not.
The former group are undoubtedly more vocal, but scratching the surface among many of them reveals a tangle of political motivations and technical misunderstandings that in truth serve only to cloud the real issues and hinder discussion.
The fact that in the years since their introduction, FBW Airbus models have maintained a safety record that equals or betters types with the traditional layout, and we have examples of safe returns after engine failures, successful deadstick landings (one of which was on water) and runway overruns in which every person on board survived. At the very least, the safety records of those types imply that the worst fears of the sceptics were somewhat overstated and never realised.