Yep, this is a woah. Gotta love that one form of mana has been switched with another (i.e. the magic of the SAS has been moved down a tier in the pyramid of control, it doesn't turn the plane, but it runs the controls for the flaps which control the plane) but that's the way it is. I suppose this is as real as you can get without the advent of an unsaturable (is that a word? eh whatever) reaction wheel back on Earth.
Keep up the good work. And at this rate, I'm expecting you the KSP community to pop out a calculator soon, we can't be beat by those horrid Minecrafters and their *shudder* space mods.