John Giddy wrote:


Just to return to your original question, what caused you to suspect
that gliders needed power assisted controls ?
AFAIK, there is no power assistance in the common Cessna and Piper GA
aircraft, unless you are using the autopilot. Am I wrong in this
assumption ?


It seemed to me that if there was enough mechanical advantage in
a joystick, no one would ever have bothered to design with a
full-length control stick. The latter takes up more space and
weighs more.

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