...and the there's the Embraer. The pitch and rudder control is pretty good. It feels very conventional and compensates for flap and thrust changes so well that you don't feel it. It appears to have a conventional elevator trim and it too works well. The then there's the
ailerons. Complete and utter sh!te. Allegedly these are not "fly-by-wire" but are just cable actuated (fly-by-wire?). But their loading is purely synthetic and done by wacking great springs. And this is poorly designed because the spring feedback unit appears only provides a single load, no matter what the displacement is. There is also no "fight back" from the ailerons. I also reckon a different person designed the loading on the ailerons resulting in the controls feeling totally un-harmonised. So the thing is difficult and un-pleasant to fly in a gusty cross-wind - but it could be so much easier. Or there again, that's my excuse!