Regarding the story about the fly-by-wire Diamond DA42: Although the developers of fly-by-wire systems have admirable goals, I am very concerned about the unintended consequences of such control systems. As a pilot, I would never relinquish control to a computer programmer. (I worked as computer programmer for seven years!)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/reader-mail/avmail-december-10-2012