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Old 31st Oct 2018, 13:57
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Originally Posted by jeepys
The autopilot will only have max 10% authority.
Hi Jeep’s
An autopilot with only 10% authority wouldn’t be much use as an autopilot. Individual series actuators typically have 10-15% authority with two actuators in series giving 30% (ish), this is then usually extended to 100% authority by use of parallel actuators. I totally agree an actuator runaway will be limited by its authority.
I‘m not suggesting any of this is relevant in this case.
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