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Surely having a hole in the roof because of the ejection changes the aerodynamics significantly. I don't really know anything about how planes work, but wouldn'

• lm28469 3y ago
  It's smart enough to compensate for it. Otherwise it wouldn't work with wind or air of different temperature/density "if the controls are all left the same" Just like a car with speed limiter can maintain speed when you go from flat to incline, provided the engine is good enough
• dingaling 3y ago
  Even prior to FBW, aircraft which had been vacated by their pilots contentedly cruised on with a big hole in the roof. A Hunter was abandoned by its RAF pilot in the 1960s and proceeded to land itself on the runway, whilst a MiG-23 and a Harrier flew without their drivers until fuel exhaustion in the 1980s.
• iancmceachern 3y ago
  That's the whole point of fly by wire. In an old school plane yes, the pilot would have to compensate for this because the pilot is in the feedback loop. In fly by wire systems there is an IMU with gyros, accelerometers and magnetometers. The plane servos itself to a heading and velocity, and the pilot provides imput that changes the target position in space, and then the plane decides how to hey to the target position.