aviaFlyByWire redefines your manual flight experience without compromising realism.
What is it?
aviaFlyByWire is a flight control augmentation system that takes care of making manual flight easy, intuitive and smooth.
How does it work?
aviaFlyByWire intercepts your flight control hardware’s aileron and elevator signals (let’s call them X and Y values) and redirects these signals to a flight control loop. This then interprets the raw signals and uses them to command roll and pitch rates (the more you deflect your elevator, the faster the pitch change). Finally, the control loop calculates the actual aileron and elevator surface positions and sends these output signals to the aircraft. Very similar to the fly-by-wire mechanisms found in complex airliners.
Can I test it before buying?
Yes! aviaFlyByWire has a demo mode where it will work without limitations around Salzburg, Austria. Once you leave Salzburg, aviaFlyByWire will disengage.
It seemed to work fine when I tested it in demo mode. Hence I bought it to smooth out some of the irks of models with a somewhat twitchy behaviour such as the CJ4 or the like. It smoothes out the flight for sure. It also disengages manual trim control but does not control trim itself. It also does not keep the aircrafts attitude as one would expect from an FBW system. This has two effects:
1. No attitude hold, hence you have to constantly correct the attitude otherwise climb or sinkrate will change constantly very fast.
2. When disengaging the FBW, the "old" elevator trim value takes over again and may cause sudden gain or, what is worse drop in altitude. Which is not a good behaviour during an approach.
Both these "features" renders this fly by wire software nearly unusable for me.
What it seems to do is a kind of elevator/aileron hold. What it should do is attitude hold unless overridden by yoke input.
All in all I do not recommend this software as in the present state.