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Old 19th Mar 2007, 22:10
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More likely it's an artifact of the fly-by-wire implementation. Maybe the yaw damper has to work hard to keep the airplane from moving.

Watch videos of an F-18 or F-16 in flight, and you'll see a LOT of control surface movement, even though the pilot is not moving the stick at all.
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