Well not in the A320 that you are a pilot in but in the toy airplanes
most of us fly - yes, they are mechanically linked to the control surfaces.

Mxsmanic wrote:
cjcampbell writes:


You should be able to take your hands off the controls without the
airplane changing attitude. You set your pitch and then trim to hold it
there. You should never have to use more than two fingers to control
the plane.


The closest I can come in a sim is to keep the plane trimmed so I
don't have to move the joystick, but I guess that's a useful
approximation. In real life, from what I understand, the controls
would actually be in a different position, assuming that they are
mechanically linked to the control surfaces.