*** Posted by RUN ***
[Could'nt You be in the wisf of some kind of response from the stick? This regarding to the dilemma between power-seering vs. traditional direct steering from the automobile-branch.

Kim]

Not really. You can feel the responses in your body. In the early f16 days the stick didn't move at all and the old fighter pilots had a tough time adapting to this, so it was decided to let the stick move a little just to satisfy the pilots.
In jets which are not fly-by-wire conrolled, but just controlled via wires and actuators, springs are used to give the pilot an artificial feel of stick forces.
It's a little easier to control the aircraft when you have to overcome some force to move the stick & some pilots even trim the a/c a little nose heavy when they are flying formation so they have to constantly add a little back pressure even when flying straight & level.

In small low speed aircraft I think though it's important that you get some feedback through the stick. I used to fly gliders & here you get a lot of feeling through the stick. It's easy to tell wether you are stressing the glider to much or if you are about to stall.

RUN