On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:30, Andy Ross wrote: > David Megginson wrote: > > ... if I hold the yoke in *exactly* the same position and move the > > trim wheel, the elevator surface will not move; only the amount of > > force required to hold the yoke in position will change. Is that > > right? > > Yes. On any aircraft that is not fly-by-wire*, the controls the pilot > touches are linked directly to the position of the aerodynamic control > surfaces. Although in many cases the actual motions are more > complicated -- spoilers deploy in support of the ailerons at high > control deflections on big jets, for example. But the principle is > the same: the control position in the cockpit has a 1:1 mapping to the > aircraft's external configuration. > > Andy > > * The relationship goes the other way around. Fly-by-wire, by > definition, means aircraft where the controls aren't directly linked > to the surfaces.
OK, if you define fly-by-wire this way. You don't need to have an F-16 style control system though to lose that 1:1 relationship you talk about above. Personally, I would be hestitant to make that assumption for *any* aircraft with fully powered controls. > > -- > Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems > Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com > "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." > - Sting (misquoted) > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
