[phantomworker]

777's are not fly by wire, are they? I thought Boeing was against fly by wire.

[Paleo Conservative]

777's are not fly by wire, are they?

Yes they are.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

They are fly by wire, but, in the PBS NOVA special ( 21 st century jet , the building of the 777 ) I saw of the 777, one of the technical engineers said that calling those system " FLY BY WIRE " is a misnomer and not accurate.

When you talk about " Fly by wire " it's really ( Actualization by wire ).
Were instead of having the metal cables that go the the control surfaces actuators that move the control surfaces either in the wing, ailerons, vertical or horizontal stabilizers, or the rudder, you have the electric current that moves through the wires to the actuators.

The actuators are controlled either by the pilot by manual operation or the computer to the control surfaces actuator ( I am sure they have some kind of redundancy in the systems ).

In Boeing's philosophy though, they went the conservative root and still left it up to the pilot in the end , the control and judgment up to the pilot.

[nightdriver]

"777's are not fly by wire, are they? I thought Boeing was against fly by wire."

I thought the 757, the 767, AND the 777 were all fly-by-wire. Meaning electrical servos run the hydraulic actuators of the flight control surfaces rather than cables from the pilot's controls.

I have ultimate quantities more trust in a well-trained pilot than some silly computer that can and does hiccup for no known reason.