By now you have no doubt read that the big cabin, ultra-long-range Falcon 7X uses fly-by-wire technology to connect the human pilot to the flight controls, a first for business jets. Falcon insists on calling this a digital flight control system (DFCS) because all of the computers are digital, not analog, but to a pilot the intrigue is that there is no mechanical link between the cockpit controls and the surfaces that actually guide the flight path of the airplane.
So what is it like to fly the Falcon 7X? Not like any other business jet, that’s for sure. And not exactly the same as any of the airline jets that use fly-by-wire technology because each airplane manufacturer has its own concepts of how an airplane should fly to best conduct its mission.
