Thanks for all your replies.

Yes it is, as feeling is unique, and average Joe is not target audience for PMDG products.

I agree LOL :).Remember that, at least to my basic understanding, FBW simulation is not the same as autopilot. With a FBW simulation in addition to the simulation of the aircrafts dynamical behaviour, mechanical systems, and cockpit displays etc that we are all used (and what a good job top developers do too!) we *also* are interested in the state of the FBW system itself. So there needs to be some representation of it that I can interract with (e.g. my inputs are being filtered as FLEX1978 put it). This is the extra layer of simulation that I had imagined makes a FBW simulation more complex. Without some representation of the FBW system state what am I interracting with? I don't want to feel like the simulation is giving me something akin to a "hidden second autopilot". To put it another way, imagine if when PMDG did 747 v1 they kept the default FSX fuel system, would that not be unrealistic even if from a casual simming point of view many people would not notice the difference? I'm talking somewhat outside of my knowledge here but I'd be very interested how the development team approaches these issues.

Guys the NGX already does joystick intercept and augmentation - it's how we simulated different control curves and whatnot based on speeds that FSX wouldn't normally allow for. We already have the technology for doing everything the 777 does, don't worry.

Just curious if the B737 has that already. Does that work with FSUIPC handling the controller, not FSX?

We wrote our own system for it that's integrated into the gauge.