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Old 12th February 2026 | 14:19
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777Supremecist
 
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Originally Posted by ignorantAndroid
You don't need force feedback to have 'feel'. Imagine you're flying level and you reduce thrust. The airplane will pitch down and start descending to maintain airspeed. If you want to maintain altitude, you have to pull back on the stick. If you don't adjust trim, you'll have to keep pulling back. The feel comes from the fact that you're constantly pulling.
but isn't that a very inefficient process? For example, in a C152, I would trim it out until I feel the pressure on my yoke is gone, and then refer outside to see my aircraft's attitude. So in the sidestick, they won't feel that force, they can only refer outside and trim accordingly (ie release the stick, see that the aircraft is still pitching up, trim again), whereas in my case, I can simply do it once by trimming until I have 0 pressure on my yoke.
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