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Old 1st Oct 2014, 09:01
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RetiredF4
 
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Vilas
Tactile feedback on the controls will remain personal opinion.
I tend to disagree.
We have two major Aircraft manufacturers with different steering concepts, Boing and Airbus. We tend to see the difference in the SS vs traditional control column layout of the cockpit. Enough has been written by Dozy and others why AB choose that layout and why tactile feedback was considered unimportant.
Boing is sticking to the old layout with tactile feedback. To assume they did it due to personal oppinion of their engineers or their pilots falls short considerably. Imho their view on importance of tactile feedback and the difficulties to implement such a system in a SS concept are the main reasons that B Aircraft are still produced with the column.

The day might come when we will see the SS concept with some kind of tactile feedback, wether it will be a Boing or an Airbus. My bet would be in Boing.
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