Salute!
Great discussion.
I gotta get one of our test pilot golden arms to talk a bit.
While I go thru old stuff discussing the pitch moments of the 737, I will leave you a few thots.
Unless you only wish to change what the pilot feels, you do not screw around with the largest aero surface on the plane besides the main wing. You screw around with the artificial feel system. GASP!!
Pushers are not a really neat fix when all you want to do is reduce the nose up pitching moment. You have to deal with the aero as well as the artificial feel system.. And before more research and consulting, I comment:
The Airbus FBW in 320 plus does not give a rat’s about the “feel” close to a stall AoA. You can command max or min and that stick has the same spring force as if you were in a dogfight in the F-22 or Typhoon. Huh? It was certified because the basic aero met the criteria and the plane design would do just fine with ropes, levers, pulleys, pushrods and such. That was not what I flew in the Viper, due to inherent stability designed in from day one. But I can use my experience using a stick with zero feedback, and it commanded roll rate and gee according to how many pounds I exerted on the thing (Airbus stick is displacement mainly, but Viper was all pressure sensors)
PEI..... We need some test community inputs to this discussion
Gums.....
P.S. tanks for tolerating this old fart that flew ropes, pulleys and then hybrids and finally no sierra FBW that had zero mechanical anything before some here were born.