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Old 12th Nov 2018, 02:52
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Good point, Mongo, about corruption

OTOH, the big thing is that the Viper FLCS was gee command in pitch and rate command in roll. So the Aoa inputs were focused upon "limiter" functions and did not actively move control surfaces about nor affect your control wheel or stick "feel".
We had a troop fly the Viper for about ten minutes with no AoA and damaged pitot because a big pelican busted the radome off. The rate sensors and stby gains let him fly for those ten minutes, but then it got too hard and poof!

Airbus is closest FLCS we see that compares with the Viper. And it does not provide tactile feedback to the control sticks last I checked. And the bus is aero stable and not as "sensitive' to small changes in gee or AoA.

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