On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 04:19 am, Jim Wilson wrote:
Armed vs. Active modes:
Active modes are the only ones that affect control surfaces. Armed
modes
select an impending active mode that may or may not get triggered,
depending
on if the condition for that mode is satisfied. Note
AXIS 3) Yaw damper:
I am anxious that this be a totally separate system from the autopilot,
it's a very independent system apart from the fact it drives control
surfaces and the switch is usually on the MCP :-) If we ever go as far
as systems modeling at the block level, that's especially
James Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
c. Heading Select (HDG-SEL) uses ailerons to turn toward heading bug (or
setting from FMC). Switches to active Heading Hold when target reached.
Changing heading bug after Heading Hold is active requires initiating
HDG-SEL
again (won't
James Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:34 am, Jim Wilson wrote:
Not a problem...give me a day or two to get things together. Probably
there
won't be as much changed as there will be added, but some of the
settings
need to be exposed in the
James Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
yeah, this is basically what I was expecting, The current auto-pilot
code is a bit hard-coded to use the radio stack for NAV modes, for
example, we need a general course deviation or heading deviation (once
we decide which) input, and then a NAV/GPS
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:27 pm, Jim Wilson wrote:
If I'm not mistaken (and I easily could be) the FMC would usually just
feed
the autopilot heading and speed data when using non-radio-stack NAV
modes.
The FMC monitors the course and the AP only needs to follow the
commands
Well, this is where it gets interesting :-) We really need to define the
auto-throttle property nodes, so that the FMC/MCDU can set (some of )
those. Or, on the 757/767, this is done via a physical panel, apparently
(if I understand Thomas' comments). (the 777 uses a THRUST LIM page).
And
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:15, James Turner wrote:
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:27 pm, Jim Wilson wrote:
If I'm not mistaken (and I easily could be) the FMC would usually just
feed
the autopilot heading and speed data when using non-radio-stack NAV
modes.
The FMC monitors the
