Fly-by-wire and gliders

On Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:13:41 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
so...* You want to eliminate all the
things that make soaring challenging?

Dan Marotta
On 10/30/2014 6:04 PM, Ramy wrote:



While I am not looking forward for any automatic controls, I agree with the OP that FBW will significant improve performance. I believe the lost of performance due to inaccurate pilot input, un centered yaw string (heavy foot), non optimal flap position (I estimate I am flying in non optimal flap position maybe 30% of the time especially when doing a lot of transitions), flying too slow/too fast etc hurts performance more than the difference in glide performance between modern gliders.

Ramy

No no, I don't want this, just agreeing with the OP that this will indeed improve performance, but in the account of fun and challenge.

Ramy