Pilots are taught to think in terms of pressure on stick not displacement. That is part of the reason that the F-16 is built the way it is.
-- Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., CFI, MEI > From: Gordan Sikic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:08:30 +0100 > To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization > > Hi Jon, > > I see you are really mad :) >> Look here at the X-15 data and FCS diagram: >> http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/X-15Aero.html >> >> The USAF F-16 (Block 40) FCS diagram is the same way: stick force is the >> input. Same with Space Shuttle control Law diagrams. >> >> The JSBSim X-15 model simulates the X-15 control laws as shown in the >> link above. We take the -1 to +1 joystick input from FlightGear and turn >> it into a stick force, mapping to the force range described in Etkin's >> book as a sort of standard. >> > > These are 3 particular examples only. > > (about F16) > AFAIK, it has nonmoving joystick, and force transducers, and it is > "normal" for that plane to ise output from the transduced as a input. > > (about X15) > AFAIK, it had 2 completely different (unconnected?) sticks, one for > "lower speeds" (usual stick), and the other one (joystick actually) used > for control in "higer speeds regimes". Does it apply for both sticks? > > > As I mentioned, these are 3 particular examples only, not a general rule . > > cheers, :) > Gordan > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
