ORIGINAL: jpmodels
The Nexstar is goofy to land. The fly-by-wire system seems to turn your rate inputs into position inputs. It teaches you the wrong things and makes it difficult to advance to rate control which is what you need to do any type of fun or interesting flying. Too bad, because it is a really neat idea. It's just not the right thing.
Fly-by-wire? If you mean the AFS, that is crap and should be turned off before you even charge the batteries IMO for the reasons you gave. Fly-by-wire? Give me a break.[:'(]