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. -- 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
