No, not more respinsive than possible, but I thought that the damping in FlightGear _and_ in real world was only for display purposes. So maybe there would be a possiblility to get the signal before it was damped. After reading the article on the AVWeb site and noting this:
The instrument also contains a dashpot in order to slow down the movement of the gimbal ...
and
The dashpot is replaced by a viscous dampener ...
It seems that since the gimbal is dampened it can not output a more responsive signal.
Exactly. The article went on to state that the damping was added specifically for autopilots. Consider the alternative -- in rough air, the TC is bouncing back and forth from a medium left turn to a right turn every half second or so, and the AP is flexing the ailerons left and right violently trying to compensate. It's critical that you test your AP in light and moderate turbulence and not just in smooth air, since turbulence is the norm for small planes flying below 8,000 ft or so, especially on a summer afternoon.
I think that more modern APs, like the STEC, do their own filtering as well -- I've heard people say that they're the first low-end autopilots that you don't have to disengage in light or moderate turbulence.
All the best,
David
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