HELP
Is there anybody out there who has experience of flying an aircraft using non FBW side sticks? If so and you would contact me on email I would love to talk to you about your views.
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Why? Well as you may have seen Richard Noble is doing a new SEIFR six seater with a PT6
This aircraft, the Farnborough - F1, needs to have a great number of modern aids to help the gal/guy flying it in the very demanding airtaxi role. It will have a glass cockpit. Naturally, it will be much easier to see, reach and operate the whatever if side sticks are used.
BUT RN’s team realise that the aircraft must also handle like a dream during a gusty cross wind approach into a nasty little strip at night at 75 kts.
The aircraft will not have powered controls so it is important that the forces needed to control the aircraft (especially laterally) are only modest as the forces pilots can offer using a side stick are clearly less than using a wheel.
We are currently getting together design data on this issue and would welcome any comments for or against about any aspects of this topic. Everybody will get a reply.
THANX