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Take one obvious example, Airbus and Boeing. Airbus use a sidestick and Boeing a conventional yoke. Airbus uses a fly-by-wire system and a sidestick as the aircraft adheres to a strict flight envelope that is set within the flight limits of that particular aircraft. The pilot has limited control of the aircraft and in theory cannot endanger the crew and passengers by making the aircraft perform a maneuver that would otherwise lead to a stall or over loading and failure of the structure. Boeing also a fly-by-wire system but they use a yoke. Now the reason that they use a centre stick is because unlike the Airbus aircraft even though they have a flight envelope the pilot IS in control of the aircraft and can make the aircraft perform maneuvers that could lead to a stall etc... Which aircraft do most pilots prefer... Boeing obviously, they are in complete control if they need to not the flight computer. Now obviously passengers jets and yokes can't be compared to centre sticks and side sticks in a fighter aircraft so case two, modern fighter jets... Yes the current trend is sidesticks, but there is a very very simple reason for this. The design, modern military jets are designed to be EXTREMELY unstable and are kept in the sky by the computer not by the pilot, the modern pilots fly by the instruments in front of him and a centre stick is intrusive so that's one benefit of a sidestick. So there you have it, nothing to do with how sensitivity or precision... the reason that modern jets use side stick is that in reality modern pilots do not have complete control over the aircraft the COMPUTER does. Find me a military fighter aircraft that does not use fly-by-wire and has a side stick please. @Winny, I hope you found that interesting
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