Originally Posted by
gums
And note the phrase in FCOM "With the side stick neutral, the system maintains one gee in pitch corrected for pitch attitude" How one can assert the jet is a pitch attitude control law still bothers me.
He's not - he's saying it's a stable flightpath control (of which pitch attitude is a single factor).
I think most of us learned in planes like that, ya think?
And as has been pointed out, behaving like a scaled-up trainer was not part of the design specification for this system, which is why the actual behaviour and the differences from a "traditional" setup are front-and-centre in conversion training.