I would not be in favor or any kind of throttle by wire control. What we have right now with conventional servo control offers excellent reliability, actuation speed, latency and resolution. This would be hard to duplicate (at a reasonable cost) using throttle by wire if an additional layer of processing was required. Now if we just mated a servo with the carb, that would be a different situation but would really accomplish little over our current remote servo installations. Reliability would probably decrease in the process. I'd like to watch a good 3D pilot flying with a throttle link that has poor resolution and high latency!

Now regarding the current generation of throttle by wire used in automotive applications ... Every one I have encountered has horrible resolution, considerable processing lag and the actuators are very s-l-o-w. OLD TECHNOLOGY throttle cables and direct linkages worked much better where throttle feel was important. Of course the new technology integrates much better with cruise control and other throttle related functions ..... but driver feel is gone in the process.