Originally Posted by
Sidestick_n_Rudder
Electric as in ‘electrically controlled’. You still need hydraulics to power them.
Quite true across not just the Airbus fleet, but on all 100+ seat transport category aircraft - unless we include the Mad Dog, whose designers seemingly from another era, eschewed total reliance on hydraulics as well as any electrickery betwixt the cockpit and primary flight control surfaces.
