An advantage of using the swashplate (Item 1675) over the Independent Blade Control (Item 1690) is that the cycling of the actuators will be significantly less. This is because the actuators will only change when the pilot, or the auto-gyros, move the cyclic stick or the collective. They will not have to change at the same frequency as that of the rotor RPM.

However, if conventional ailerons, elevator and rudder were included, for redundancy etc, then Independent Blade Control could be considered. This is because it might be possible to trim the craft in forward flight so as to eliminate the need for a large percentage of the actuator motion. Alternatively, in forward flight the rotor controls could be de-coupled from the control system and only the ailerons, elevator and rudder be controled.