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by Maken 1102 days ago
Do you have more info about this? Sounds like a interesting design decision (I'm not a aeronautical engineer).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes#Flight_mo...

If you read all the way down to "Direct Law", which is the most degraded of all the FBW modes, that's how a Boeing normally works.

The Airbus system really makes life quite easy in a lot of ways... the aircraft will fly the exact same at maximum and minimum weights, etc.