you cannot fly at all without control.
As a fun aside this reminds me of one of the early F-104 test pilots ( "Fish" Salmon IIRC) visiting U.K. and being in the company of Haraka Senior.
To keep the conversation going, the old man asked "Fish" ,out of interest , how many hours he had spent test flying the F-104 .
" Over 1000",
Senior quietly expressed his admiration for achieving 1000hr PI on test flying the beast.
"Oh," replied "Fish",
"I wouldn't claim by definition that they were all strictly "Pilot in Command"."