Cirrus controls, yes they are spring loaded, but if you really feel any resistance more than just slight from that you are kind of limp wristed. As most know, the Cirrus has a side stick, that acts kind of like a yoke. It doesn't move around a single point as a game controller generally does, it acts more like a yoke for pitch control, it slides in and out and it turns about a point, similar to wheel control for roll control. Most standard yokes on GA aircraft will rotate almost 90 degrees to the left and 90 degrees to the right to fully deflect the ailerons left or right. For a control like the Cirrus, that is too much rotation for your wrist. Think about it, the stick is canted about 30 degrees to the left for the pilot's side, if they used the control wheel standard rigging the stick would be turned 60 degrees from vertical to the left and 120 degrees from vertical to the right for full aileron deflection. That's too much twisting for your wrist to do efficiently. So what they did was change the ratio of the rigging. The Cirrus stick turns maybe 30 to 45 degrees in either direction to obtain full deflection of the ailerons. This means you get less leverage to turn those ailerons than with a control wheel. You are also using weaker muscles, more in your wrist than the rest of your arm like other planes. This may make the stick feel stiffer when you first try it, but it really isn't, it just moves the ailerons more than you are used to with less stick movement. It literally takes a few minutes to get used to, but it is different. You make less of a movement in the stick roll axis to make things happen. I love it, a Cessna control feels sloppy to me now, great, but sloppy compared to the Cirrus, and that is why.
