Certainly not implying your "an elephant is a mammal, therefore all mammals are elephants" point! I just wonder whether its worth the hassle for a conventional helicopter.
I'm sure the NH90 is nice to fly, that is not in dispute, although I have to say that the cockpit HMI seems quite clunky and old fashioned (yes, I've had a go, but only in the Simulator), but the of course the origins of its designs are last century.
There is already some difficulty with pilots dealing with advanced automation - the "Whats it doing now?" call is still heard. At least we can teach that instead of saying that, you drop down one or more levels of automation ultimately until you are hand flying. If you want to say "Whats it doing now" whilst FBW "hand flying", what do you do then?
FBW didn't help the Air France bods.
N Korea - just to make the point about the EMP since that is probably the most likely source of an EMP at the moment!
Last edited by HeliComparator; 23rd April 2013 at 09:28.